The Oklahoma Women's Treatment Facility first opened in 1974 at 3300 Martin Luther King Drive, and received the name "Mabel Bassett Correctional Center" in November, 1977.

[6] To consolidate this population, the state purchased the former Central Oklahoma Correctional Facility (COCF) in McLoud for just under $40 million.

With this move, the state planned to expand and harden the facility, take over Dominion's contract for housing 110 female inmates from Wyoming and Hawaii, and close the prior two sites.

[9] In 2020, Mabel Bassett was a site mentioned in the protests outside of the Department of Corrections headquarters for their poor response in handling the COVID-19 outbreaks.

[10] In March 2022, inmate Amanda Kay Lane died of her injuries sustained at Mabel Bassett.