Why are state's prisons so full?
More people are imprisoned in Oklahoma than in all of Hong Kong , or Austria .
In a recent United Nations survey, 39 of 50 participating countries reported prison populations of less than 25,000. In Oklahoma, which has the third-highest incarceration rate in the nation, about 26,000 are in prison.
"We have ridiculous sentence lengths for crimes,” said Oklahoma County Public Defender Bob Ravitz . "Inste...
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