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OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma's Legislature is living up to its tough-on-crime reputation with the passage of a bill making it easier to send child offenders to prison with no chance for parole.

While many states across the country are easing no-parole sentences for children, Oklahoma's Republican-led Legislature shifted in the other direction this session and approved a bill to allow judges to put teenage offenders behind bars with no chance for release.

Pushed by the state's prosecutors late in the session, the bill now under review by Republican Gov. Mary Fallin takes away a jury's option t...