Business, civic coalition seeks to cut Oklahoma prison count
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February 1, 2019
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A coalition of business and community leaders led by former state House Speaker Kris Steele is outlining a plan to reduce the state's prison population by 5 percent over the next 10 years.
Oklahomans for Criminal Justice Reform will push to retroactively apply a state question approved by voters in 2016 to ease penalties for drug and low-level property crimes. Steele says that change alone would allow for the immediate release of about 1,100 inmates and sentence reductions for another 1,400. Oklahoma's new Gov. Kevin Stitt said earlier this week he supported the concept.
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