After a push from big retailers and law enforcement, a new Oklahoma law will give t he state Attorney General the power to ...

The state's tough-on-crime ethos has spurred the second-highest overall incarceration rate in the country, with a prison system running at 122 percent of capacity. News Today's news ...

As of January 2018, one in eight Oklahoma prisoners were serving a sentence of life with parole, life without parole, or a sentence of 50 years or more, sometimes referred to as "virtual life ...

The voter-led reforms made many non-violent crimes misdemeanors, in an effort to shrink Oklahoma’s high prison population. But the 2024 bill didn’t make it out of committee.

In Oklahoma for example, our incarceration boom really kicked off like most places in the country in the 1980s, and just exploded. We're up probably 700 percent since 1980, and our crime rate's up ...

The burden of paying for prison reforms in Oklahoma and other states may hit welfare recipients hardest, according to a new study published in the Journal of Law, Economics&Organization.

If it passes, SQ 805 could reduce the prison population by 8.5 percent over the next 10 years, according to a projection by the Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs, a conservative think tank that ...

The following states had the second through fifth highest incarceration rates: Oklahoma (639 per 100,000), Mississippi (636 per 100,000), Arkansas (586 per 100,000), and Arizona (558 per 100,000 ...

Dwindling oil revenues in Oklahoma are spurring a nowadays rare collaboration by state politicians of all stripes on reforming a bulging prison system that critics say is in danger of breaking down.

The voter-led reforms made many non-violent crimes misdemeanors, in an effort to shrink Oklahoma’s high prison population. But the 2024 bill didn’t make it out of committee.