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Tulsa County Sees Major Drop In Women Incarceration
By newson6.com- Annie Chang
Published: 09/13/2016

TULSA COUNTY, Oklahoma -

Oklahoma leads the nation in incarceration rates for women, and it seems that lead is growing.

Oklahoma Watch reports a 9.5 percent overall increase in women in prison in the state over 2015, with a 33 percent increase in Oklahoma County.

The big exception in the report is Tulsa county, where there is not only a big push to keep women from going from jail to prisons, but also to keep them out of jail in the first place.

And Tulsa County is succeeding with the push.

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