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| Gruesome killing likely to hurt corrections reform efforts in Oklahoma |
| By newsok.com |
| Published: 10/01/2014 |
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LAST week’s gruesome killing at a food processing plant in Moore has cast a spotlight, yet again, on Oklahoma’s correctional system. The focus: Why was the person accused of the crime even out on the street? Photo - The Alton Nolen case shows how challenging the corrections system can be at the back end of the process. Alton Nolen, who is accused of beheading a woman and stabbing another before being shot and wounded by the company’s chief operating officer, had been in trouble with the law several times before Thursday’s attacks. But he didn’t spend nearly as much time behind bars as prosecutors had expected. As detailed in The Oklahoman over the weekend, Nolen was released from state custody in March 2013 after serving two years for three felonies that carried combined sentences of 10 years in prison. He was given a six-year sentence for cocaine possession, two years for marijuana possession and two years for assaulting an Oklahoma Highway Patrol trooper — he shoved her and ran away as she tried to handcuff him during a traffic stop in 2010. Read More. |
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