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| Drugs put many females in Oklahoma prison system |
| By swoknews.com |
| Published: 09/17/2015 |
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OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - Untreated substance abuse problems and mental health issues are among the reasons Oklahoma leads the nation in the imprisonment of women, state corrections officials said Wednesday. Oklahoma's female incarceration rate is 136 per 100,000 residents, while the national rate is 83 per 100,000 residents, according to figures released as part of a daylong legislative study on the issue at the state Capitol. As of Saturday, 3,211 women were serving prison sentences in Oklahoma, and most were nonviolent drug offenders who were imprisoned for the first time. "Could we have done something different than send them to prison?" said Mohsen Pourett, director of the Evaluation and Analysis Unit at the state Department of Corrections. Read More. |
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