Brianna Bailey

This story was produced in partnership with KOSU. Family and friends piled into a borrowed 15-passenger van to pick up Wayne Thompson from prison on Monday morning. They waved homemade signs and chanted “freedom, freedom” on the rainy drive to Clara Water... See more

Attorneys for people with severe mental illness in jails across the state are asking a judge to fine the Oklahoma Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services $1,000 for every day it doesn’t come up with a legitimate plan to speed up wait time... See more

This story was produced in partnership with KOSU Tony Mann’s siblings worry they are running out of time to get their older brother out of prison. After serving more than four decades for first degree-murder, Mann is in poor health. He turned 70 during a ... See more

This story was produced in partnership with KOSU. Oklahoma has a long way to go on a plan to improve wait times for people with severe mental illness in the criminal justice system, and still can’t provide an accurate count of how many are stuck in jails ... See more