A hundred goats have been put to work chewing through thick, overgrown brush at the historic Oklahoma State Penitentiary rodeo arena in McAlester, where vegetation had grown so tall and dense that crews considered the grounds difficult and potentially dangerous to enter. Since Oklahoma's rodeo ended in 2009, Louisiana's Angola Prison Rodeo has remained the only active behind-the-walls prison rodeo still operating in the country, according to the Oklahoma House of Representatives. Oklahoma lawmakers co-authored House Bill 3749 and Senate Bill 1427 in March 2024 to steer $8.3 million in state funds toward an estimated $9.3 million restoration of the entire arena, with the Department of Corrections pledging an additional $1 million, per the Oklahoma House of Representatives.