State’s slow prison growth rate tempered by study
T HE walls of Oklahoma ’s prisons aren’t bursting quite as badly as some had expected, which is good because many of those old walls can’t take much more.
News that the state’s prison population grew in the past year at a slower rate than at any time in recent memory is encouraging, although it is tempered a bit by a study that says Oklahoma’s prisons need about half a billion dollars wo...
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