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Oklahoma's Incarceration Rates--What would it mean to be average

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Oklahoma's Incarceration Rates by: JULIE DELCOUR Associate Editor Sunday, December 28, 2008 What if Oklahoma's per-capita incarceration rate were average. Nothing excessive, mind you, just similar to that of states in the middle of the pack? The research committee over at the Oklahoma Academy did some calculations recently and found out the importance of being just average ? what it would mean in terms of people and dollars. These are the committee's findings: By being average the state would have 6,100 fewer inmates, a number equivalent to the population of Henryetta, Pauls Valley or Vinita. The Department of Corrections' annual budget would shrink by an estimated $100 million. Yet, Oklahoma is loathe to settle for average. Oklahoma, in fact, has ranked No...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on December 29, 2008 (boomark / email).