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The percentage of their intended inmate capacity that Oklahoma’s public prisons are holding in 2018.
[Source: Oklahoma Policy Institute]
Decrease in reports of larceny in Oklahoma from 2016 to 2017.
[Source: Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation Office of Criminal Justice Statistics]
Oklahoma’s rank out of all 50 states and Washington D.C. for lowest cost of living in the 3rd quarter of 2018.
Hospital beds per 1,000 population in Oklahoma in 2016, 19th in the U.S.
[Source: Kaiser Family Foundation]
The number of patient licenses approved by the Oklahoma Medical Marijuana Authority as of November 11, 2018
[Source: Oklahoma Medical Marijuana Authority]
Out of all Oklahoma parolees sent back to prison, the percentage who were reincarcerated for a technical violation of their parole rather than committing any new offense (2016).
[Source: Prison Policy Initiative]
Oklahoma’s ranking out of all 50 states and Washington D.C. for the best states to work, based on wages, worker protections, and the right to organize.
[Source: Oxfam]
Among adolescents in Oklahoma who experienced a major depressive episode, the percentage who did not receive treatment (2011-2015).
Number of Oklahomans who had their prison sentences recommended for commutation by the Pardon and Parole Board last week. All were serving sentences of a decade or more for crimes that are now misdemeanors with no prison time under SQ 780.
Percentage of Oklahoma children living in a household with income below the poverty line in 2017
[Source: Oklahoma Policy Institute]
