For the last four years, the fight against mass incarceration in Oklahoma has been a story of unlikely success. In 2016, after decades of creeping prison populations, the state’s incarceration rate reached levels so astronomical that the Prison Policy Initiative would dub it the “world’s prison capital“: More than 1 in 100 Oklahomans was locked up in a prison, jail, juvenile hall, or immigration detention facility.
How A Domestic Violence Loophole Could Doom A Campaign To Cut Oklahoma’s Harsh Prison Sentences
Madison Pauly, Mother Jones
Thu, 10/29/2020 - 3:00am
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