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| OK Prison System Solving Issues |
| By tulsaworld.com |
| Published: 10/25/2010 |
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In the 2003 movie “Holes,” the boys in a youth detention camp are fated to dig holes, one after another, into an unyielding desert floor for a sadistic warden’s own mysterious reasons. It is a punishment not unlike that endured by Oklahomans year after year, as we try to sustain a prison system enlarged by generations of lawmakers who did not know their heads from, well, a hole in the ground about how to realistically punish offenders. These lawmakers instead chanted the get-tough-oncrime mantra every election season. It was easier to pass more laws than to actually deal with the complexities of how to fairly punish inmates, and to keep the public safe at the same time. It took years, for instance, to sell the Legislature on the idea of drugs courts and community sentencing. Those approaches have proved highly effective as alternatives to incarceration for some inmates.) Read More. |
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