Holdenville prison operator sells out

HOLDENVILLE — CoreCivic will cease its operations at the Davis Correctional Facility here on Sept. 30, resulting in the loss of 274 jobs. The Tennessee-based private prison operator notified the state Office of Workforce Development pursuant to the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act.

State killer charged with running drug ring from Holdenville prison

OKLAHOMA CITY – An inmate serving a 35-year state prison sentence for second-degree murder has been charged with running a large- scale drug trafficking operation from his prison cell. It was the second such case in three months alleging a drug ring was directed from an Oklahoma prison.