Wayne Greene: If Oklahoma could get its incarceration rate down to the national average, we'd have $100 million a year do things other than mass incarceration

“So how would the state be different if our incarceration rate were at the national average? First and most obviously, there would be fewer people in prison. Based on a 2016 estimated state population of 3.93 million, there would have been 15,327 fewer people locked up in our state.“

Tulsa World

April 19, 2019