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| Good prison reform efforts on the table at state Capitol |
| By tulsaworld.com |
| Published: 03/23/2015 |
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A package of criminal justice reforms winding its way through the Legislature could bring some long overdue reason to how Oklahoma handles lawbreakers. Oklahoma incarcerates more offenders per capita than nearly any other state and without a commensurate increase in public safety. More than half of inmates are behind bars for nonviolent offenses, costing taxpayers nearly $20,000 per inmate annually, far more than the state spends per pupil in public schools. Most nonviolent lawbreakers could be held accountable for their crimes in a less severe and far less expensive manner with better results, including a lower recidivism rate. Limited and costly prison space should be reserved for the dangerous who put the community at risk. None of the reforms proposed would bring down the high incarceration rate or reduce prison numbers immediately, but each is an important step in restructuring a broken system that is overcrowded, understaffed and counterproductive — a dysfunctional gulag that consumes a disproportionate share of scarce tax dollars. Read More. |
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