Our state leaders boast, and rightly so, about what is called “The Oklahoma Standard” — the compassion, speed and effectiveness of responses to natural disasters like spring’s tornadoes and acts of terror like the A.P. Murrah Building bombing in 1995.
Let’s apply that standard to counter the financial time bomb that lies at the end of the state’s unsustainable prison policies. Making the standard work for prison reform is both practical and principled — a moral response to a legal problem eating at the fabric of our society.
Oklahoma remains disastrously lost in the mire of one of America’s highest prison incarceration rates.
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