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Jul 25, 2013 · Three Days of Mayhem: the McAlester Riot. Forty years ago this month, a pent-up rage among inmates at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester erupted in murderous violence. On July 27, 1973, “Big Mac,” as it’s commonly called, became a mini-hell of fire and black smoke, stabbing victims, beatings, hostages and looting.
Feb 19, 2024 · The Oklahoma Department of Corrections has confirmed three private prison employees at the Lawton Correctional and Rehabilitation Center were fired following an inmate's brutal murder. The just ...
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Nov 8, 2019 · The Oklahoma State Reformatory in Granite earned a reputation for being one of the toughest prisons in the state, but those times are long gone as OSR moves from a life of incarceration to one of ...
The Oklahoma State Penitentiary, nicknamed "Big Mac", [3] is a prison of the Oklahoma Department of Corrections located in McAlester, Oklahoma, on 1,556 acres (6.30 km 2 ). Opened in 1908 with 50 inmates in makeshift facilities, today the prison holds more than 750 male offenders, [1] the vast majority of which are maximum-security inmates.
- USA
- 763 (as of April 10, 2017)
- 1908; 115 years ago
In July 1973 the Oklahoma State Prison at McAlester erupted into one of the worst prison riots in U.S. history. Crowded conditions that led to the riot had been in place almost since the facility's construction in 1911. Housing capacity for eleven hundred inmates was surpassed in 1920, and by 1973 the prison population exceeded twenty-two hundred.
It opened in 1908 under the proposal of Kate Barnard, commissioner of Charities and Corrections, and with the support of Governor Charles N. Haskell. The prison housed both male and female inmates as well as individuals of all races. The Oklahoma State Penitentiary Collection [2010.055] consists of prisoner picture cards, fingerprint cards ...
Dec 10, 2019 · What happened: Owens was alone in the jail’s “drunk tank,” according to an incident report the Latimer County Sheriff’s Office submitted to the Oklahoma State Department of Health Jail Inspection Division. He was found hanging in the cell on August 14, according to the report. The report states he died by suicide.
