Incarceration numbers stay relatively flat despite justice system reforms
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January 21, 2018
The number of people sentenced to Oklahoma prisons in 2017 fell slightly, but the state remains second in the nation in overall incarceration and could be ranked first by the end of this year.
Oklahoma Department of Corrections data shows that on the last working day of 2017, a total of 28,153 inmates were in state prisons, halfway houses or in jails awaiting transfer to prisons. That was a less than 1 percent decline from the end of 2016.
The relatively small change occurred in the face of nearly a half year of criminal justice reforms approved by voters in November 2016 and some measures pas...
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