Fresh start elusive for many inmates
Women released from prison in Oklahoma usually get $50 and a bus ticket.
Despite few resources, however, statistics show most won’t be going back to prison soon, if ever.
Just 14.4 percent of women released from state prisons in 2007 returned within three years, according to the state Department of Corrections.
To break it down another way: of the 1,271 female offenders released in fiscal 2010, 183 will b...
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