OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. — The Oklahoma Department of Corrections is preparing to launch the inaugural ODOC Inmate Games. The statewide event is designed to offer structured competitions to inmates within ...

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The famous Texas burlesque dancer Candy Barr (born Juanita Dale Slusher) performs with a band of incarcerated musicians, including drummer Morgan White, at the 1967 Texas Prison Rodeo. Barr had ...

Sign up for TPR Today, Texas Public Radio’s newsletter that brings our top stories to your inbox each morning. In Texas, a long-forgotten series of prison albums ...

Dustin Parker, a taxi driver from McAlester, was shot and killed while on the job on New Year’s Day in 2020. Over the years, ...

A man turned himself in to McAlester police and admitted to a murder that happened six years ago. Police say he admitted to shooting and killing Dustin Parker on New Year’s Day of 2020. The man who ...

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In Texas, a long-forgotten series of prison albums offers a rare way to hear what incarceration sounded like decades ago. The albums were recorded by incarcerated musicians inside Texas prisons and ...

*Snoop Dogg is making a major move into dramatic film territory, taking on a starring role in “God of the Rodeo,” a forthcoming prison drama helmed by writer-director Rosalind Ross. The project marks ...

This essay is a preview of Redemption Songs, an upcoming limited-run Marshall Project newsletter that dives into the music produced in prisons over the last century. Sign up now to get a song by ...

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