Embattled facility again is 'at a breaking point'
McALESTER — As a child, Terry Crenshaw watched tanks roll down the streets of his hometown as smoke billowed from the ruins of the state's largest maximum-security prison.
Crenshaw, who now works inside the walls of the Oklahoma State Penitentiary , fears the aging prison is once again in danger.
"Some of the things that were going on at the time of the riot in '73 are going on today, right here,” Crensha...
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