High female incarceration rate bemoaned by Oklahoma officials
State lawmakers and prison workers said Thursday that policy changes are needed to lower Oklahoma's incarceration rate for women — the highest in the nation — and do a better job returning women to their communities and families after they have served their sentence.
"We can have the very best re-entry program in the world. But that doesn't work if we don't have communities that welcome them back," Susan L. Sha...
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