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OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — State and federal prisoners in Oklahoma are among the most likely to be killed or die accidentally behind bars, according to a new federal study.

The figures released earlier this month by the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics show Oklahoma had the second-highest prison homicide rate in the country from 2001 to 2014, with 13 killings per 100,000 state and federal inmates. Oklahoma's rate was more than double the national average of five per 100,000 inmates and second only to Maine's rate of 14 per 100,000, but the study warned Maine's figures were unreliable because of a s...