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Long Story Short: An inmate called for help four times in 45 minutes before anyone came; A man was being beaten to death (opens the original)
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Messiah Shanks watched a movie on a tablet in his cell at the Oklahoma County Detention Center when, about 1:30 a.m. on April 25, 2025, his cellmate heard someone groaning down the hall. Shanks didn’t hear it at first, but it got louder. Punches also echoed through the pod on the 12th floor of the jail, and a man moaned. Shanks and his cellmate moved to the door and tried to figure out where the sound was coming from. They thought it was coming from cell 20. Shanks called the emergency phone lin
Long Story Short: Missing guns, 17 vehicles and a meat slicer - What Oklahoma sheriff turnover audits are finding (opens the original)
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Bart Perrier began his first term as Osage County sheriff in 2025 in shock. An audit found 796 unaccounted-for items and a mismanaged evidence locker. The missing items included 17 vehicles, 27 guns of varying sizes, 16 Flock cameras, and 20 Tasers. Auditors deemed the evidence locker uncontrolled because there were multiple master keys. “The first few months, my mouth was wide open every day,” Perrier said. The audit wasn’t the first to find a large number of missing items at the Osage County S
Long Story Short: Oklahoma’s only public liberal arts college is at war with itself (opens the original)
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A dispute over the future of the University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma has erupted into an unusually public confrontation between faculty and the university’s administration, with professors warning that proposed changes could fundamentally alter the state’s 118-year-old public liberal arts college. On Sept. 3, USAO faculty voted overwhelmingly to adopt aresolution of no confidence in President Kayla Hale and Vice President for Academic Affairs Makenna Garrison. The vote was 40 in favor, on
Long Story Short: Stitt’s tenure ban is costing Oklahoma’s rural universities their top candidates (opens the original)
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Gov. Kevin Stitt’s decree ending faculty tenure is already costing regional universities top-choice hires and other applicants, making it harder for schools in remote locations to attract academic talent. State and local leaders grappling with the issue said they hope the new rule sunsets along with Stitt’s time in office. At East Central University in Ada, two of four vacated positions – in history and criminal justice – remain unfilled after lower than normal application rates and numerous can
Long Story Short: Who’s calling? (opens the original)
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When Oklahoma inmate Steve Wilbanks spoke to a reporter by phone in late July, it had been six weeks since he worked in a prison call center, placing calls on behalf of insurance companies attempting to poach business from competitors and making political calls as primary elections were underway across the country. “I had good numbers,” Wilbanks, who is incarcerated at the James Crabtree Correctional Center in Helena, said. “I was a producer.” Wilbanks was one of four inmates who spoke with repo
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