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OK: Report: Rethink corrections policies or risk federal oversight

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Report: Rethink corrections policies or risk federal bout by Marie Price, The Journal Record January 14, 2009 http://www.journalrecord.com/article.cfm?recid=95123 OKLAHOMA CITY ? Oklahoma?s swelling inmate population shows the need to rethink corrections policies to avoid another bout with federal-court oversight of the prison system or a state budget where corrections needs crowd out funding for others, members of the Oklahoma Academy were told Tuesday. In the organization?s report ?Oklahoma?s Criminal Justice System: Can We be Just as Tough but Twice as Smart?? a key recommendation is a hard look at a state law that requires those convicted of certain serious crimes to serve at least 85 percent of their sentence before being considered for parole...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on January 19, 2009 (boomark / email).