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Oklahoman FORT SUPPLY —  A northwest Oklahoma lawmaker says a decision to close a state-owned minimum-security prison will be “devastating” to the rural area after officials with the Oklahoma Department of Corrections said Wednesday they will close the William S. Key Correctional Center by the end of the year. “This is just another kick in the teeth to northwest Oklahoma,” said Sen. Casey Murdock, R-Felt. Nearly 140 employees work at the prison. Current inmates — about 1,000 — will be moved to other facilities. “The decision to close a facility is always a difficult one,�...

‘Tardy Gras’, strip club vaccines, lifeguard shortage: News from around our 50 states From USA TODAY Network and wire reports © Gerald Herbert/AP A trinket is thrown from a float during a parade in Mobile, Ala., dubbed “Tardy Gras,” to compensate for canceled Mardi Gras festivities because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Alabama  Mobile: Thousands of joyful revelers, many without masks, competed for plastic beads and trinkets tossed from floats as Alabama’s port city threw a Mardi Gras-style parade Friday night, its first since Carnival celebrations were scrapped earl...

Oklahoman McALESTER — Convicted murderer Nicholas Alexander Davis was among death row inmates moved off of the most restrictive unit in prison after the American Civil Liberties Union of Oklahoma threatened to sue. That transfer turned out to be fatal. In his new unit at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary, Davis was exposed to the novel coronavirus during an outbreak in March and became ill. He died April 7 at a hospital in Lindsay from COVID-19 complications, a medical examiner concluded in a report. He was 46. He was awaiting execution for a fatal shooting inside an Oklahoma City apartme...

An Oklahoma death row inmate staved off execution for years. Then the pandemic came to his prison Nolan Clay, Oklahoman Replay Video UP NEXT McALESTER — Convicted murderer Nicholas Alexander Davis was among death row inmates moved off of the most restrictive unit in prison after the American Civil Liberties Union of Oklahoma threatened to sue. © Oklahoma Corrections Department Nicholas Davis That transfer turned out to be fatal. In his new unit at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary, Davis was exposed to the novel coronavirus during an outbreak in March and became ill. He...

The Oklahoma Board of Corrections on Wednesday unanimously approved two contracts that will keep the North Fork Correctional Facility in Sayre and Davis