Tuesday, March 16th 2021, 10:32 pm
By: Barry Mangold
After pausing visits in September, the Oklahoma Department of Corrections announced Tuesday inmate visitation will resume in April.
“We know how valuable family support is to our inmates, and I am very pleased we are able to resume visitation throughout all facilities,” said department director Scott Crow in a news release.
Additional rules will be enforced by DOC staff to accommodate state health guidelines for COVID-19, such as masking and social distancing.
Visitation will officially resume on April 1. Visitors and inmates will be required to wear masks, remain six feet apart throughout visits, and no physical contact is allowed.
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Mark and Delores Stepp with Francine Stepp (L) and Francine in prison (Discovery+/Oklahoma Department of Corrections)
Content Warning: Violence Where Murder Lies is the latest series to be released by Discovery+ among its true-crime programming. Compared to other true-crime offerings, Where Murder Lies focuses on cases that are not as well known in the country, but nevertheless, remain just as intriguing. The series focuses on exposing murder investigations as one truth after the other is revealed, laying out a terrible betrayal of trust or a shocking indiscretion.
The second episode of Where Murder Lies focuses on the 1988 murder case of Mark and Delores Stepp, whose daughter ran to a neighbor screaming that her parents were killed in Stillwater, Oklahoma. On the outside, the Stepps seemed like the average American family Mark worked at the Sooner Power Plant in North Central Oklahoma as an Instrument and Controls employee, and Delores worked on the thi
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