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OK: Audit: State?s prisons crowded, underfunded

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Audit: State?s prisons crowded, underfunded November 23, 2008 Muskogee Phoeniz ? TAFT ? Velita Nash says she does not have a drug or alcohol problem. ?I have a problem shoplifting clothing,? she said. ?I steal clothes from a retailer.? Nash, 40, of Lawton, is serving five years in prison and ?five years on paper? ? five years suspended. Nash has been a ?Level 4,? the highest possible rating, at Dr. Eddie Warrior Correctional Center since April. She has completed available programs and education. Her conduct has remained good, supervisors said. The Pardon and Parole Board issued her a parole certificate last month and recommended she be paroled Dec. 1, after one-third of her five-year prison sentence has been served. ?Parole is a slow progress,? Nash said...continue to full post

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