Nowata County Jail was evacuated due to high carbon monoxide levels Thursday. Prisoners were transported to another county, and the Sheriff's Office was effectively shut down. They will respond to ...

NOWATA, Okla. — The Nowata County Sheriff’s Office says there is work underway at the jail amid its closure that set into motion a chain of controversy. Interim sheriff Mirta Hallett says the kitchen ...

Longtime Nowata resident Butch Sink comes to the Nowata Depot Cafe every day. While he doesn't work at the Sheriff's Office, he said the county needs money. "We are so poor we don't have it I don't ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. NOWATA, Okla. – A jail in northeastern ...

Nowata County is looking for ways to fix its problem-plagued jail. On Monday, county commissioners learned details of a 69-page report about safety and security concerns. This comes just days after a ...

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NOWATA, OK (KJRH) — After a Carbon Monoxide leak forced the evacuation of employees and more than a dozen inmates inside the Nowata County Jail, officials are now questioning if the jail will ever be ...

NOWATA — Nowata County is without a sheriff’s agency after Sheriff Terry Barnett resigned along with the undersheriff, the rest of the county’s deputies and most jail staff over safety issues related ...

NOWATA — A 30-year law enforcement veteran has come out of retirement to lead the beleaguered Nowata County Sheriff’s Office. Nowata County commissioners appointed Mirta Hallett on Wednesday to be ...

Faced with a decision between putting inmates back in a century-old jail they feel is unsafe or defying a court order, Nowata County Sheriff’s Office officials decided to just resign instead. Nowata ...

An Oklahoma sheriff and nearly all of her staff resigned this week, defying a district judge's reported orders to reopen a county jail that has been closed and evacuated over safety issues. Nowata ...