BY CLIFTON ADCOCK and SHAUN HITTLE
McALESTER — The Oklahoma State Penitentiary, the state's oldest prison, has seen its inmate population fall to less than half of what it was five years ago as officials move hundreds of the state's most dangerous convicts to private prisons.
The decline has been so steep that some state lawmakers, corrections guards and others wonder if “Big Mac,” as it is called, will become home to only death row and the execution chamber, or if the prison will eventually be closed.
One by one, cell houses have been shuttered, including several in recent years.
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