OKLAHOMA CITY – The Oklahoma Department of Corrections (ODOC) hosted one of the nation’s leading minds in evidence-based practice in criminal justice programs on Wednesday.

About 100 ODOC leadership and agency program staff joined representatives from the Oklahoma Pardon & Parole Board, lawmakers and nonprofit leaders for a talk by Professor Edward Latessa at the Oklahoma Health Care Authority. Latessa is the director of the University of Cincinnati’s School of Criminal Justice, a researcher whom, in 2013, the Department of Justice called one of criminal justice’s most innovative people in the...