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| Oklahoma Corrections Board OKs Sentencing Reform |
| By swtimes.com- Rick Green |
| Published: 09/14/2015 |
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The Oklahoma Board of Corrections approved Thursday a governor’s recommendation for sentencing changes that will lead to the release of hundreds of serious offenders. Robert Patton, director of the state Corrections Department, estimated about 190 immediate releases and up to 400 by the end of the year. Gov. Mary Fallin made a case that state corrections officials have not implemented changes made by the Legislature in 1999 regarding how inmates accumulate good behavior credits that allow them to leave prison earlier. For those convicted of the most serious, violent crimes — offenses that require an inmate to serve 85 percent of the court-imposed sentence — corrections officials required that no early release credits be accumulated until the offenders reach that 85 percent threshold. Those crimes include violent, sexual and aggravated drug offenses. The effect was that many of the inmates were serving 90 to 93 percent of their sentences before release. Read More. |
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