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Graph of the Day: Corrections staffing way down while inmate population rises - Oklahoma Policy Institute
Today’s Graph of the Day shows that the number of correctional officers staffing Oklahoma prisons has fallen by 24.5 percent since 2000 and by 20 percent just in the past five years, while the number of inmates continues to rise. In 2000, the state had 15,184 inmates in public prisons and 2,114 correctional officers,
David Blatt