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“I want everybody to really let those figures soak in. That we are at 116 percent in state beds, but we are funded for 67 percent in staffing. That is a, well, it’s a formula for disaster, as we all know who are sitting in this room.”
-Oklahoma Board of Corrections member Linda Neal, speaking about the crisis in Oklahoma’s state prisons. Prisons going so far over capacity could give the state Parole Board the authority to consider early parole for some inmates (Source: http://bit.ly/1C7OuUL).
