Parole for violent offenders would be subject to the discretion of the Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board and the governor.

Some lawmakers’ top education priority this year at the state Capitol is to ban cell phones in Oklahoma classrooms.

The effort could reduce the amount of money needed to house illegal immigrants in prison by more than $1 million per month if all inmates are given over to ICE.

An Oklahoma board has rejected clemency for a man sentenced to die for fatally shooting a woman during a 2005 home-invasion robbery.