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Insights into Oklahoma's prison racketeering gangs

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Pay up or your son dies: Inside Oklahoma's gruesome prison racketeering gangs

Cynthia and her husband spent a normal day in December 2022 driving to their nursing home, planning to clean it out after the holidays.

Then her phone buzzed.

“Where is my (expletive) money your son owes me?” the text read. “I will tell him no matter where he is if you try to call (a prison official) and rat me out. I want the $250 I'm owed or I'll have him hurt.”

Cynthia was faced with a dilemma: pay or risk having her son attacked or perhaps even killed. Her son was incarcerated at the Lawton Correctional and Rehabilitation Facility at the time.

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