By:
Gene Perry
November 2, 2012 // Updated: May 2, 2019
To find more about all of the state questions on the ballot in November, see our 2012 State Questions page.
Oklahoma is the only state that requires the governor to approve every parole. Removing the governor from the parole process…
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By:
Gene Perry
September 26, 2012 // Updated: May 2, 2019
To find more about all of the state questions on the ballot in November, see our 2012 State Questions page.
State Question 762, on the ballot this November, would make paroles granted by the Pardon and Parole Board for non-violent…
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By:
Kate Richey
June 18, 2012 // Updated: June 18, 2012
Of the 1,934 bills filed this past legislative session, only a small fraction of those saw any significant action by legislators. Most bills are never heard by a committee, and almost all of them fall short of a hearing on…
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By:
Gene Perry
May 7, 2012 // Updated: May 2, 2019
Mike Connelly was the first research director the now-defunct Oklahoma Sentencing Commission in the 1990s. He went on to direct sentencing commissions in Maryland and Wisconsin before returning to Oklahoma to manage the state DOC’s Evaluation & Analysis unit until…
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By:
Gene Perry
March 27, 2012 // Updated: May 2, 2019
A new criminal justice reform law seeks to reduce crime and ease the burden on overcrowded, understaffed prisons. We explain what the new law does and what still stands in the way of reform.
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By:
Gene Perry
September 7, 2011 // Updated: May 2, 2019
Trevor Shanklin recently completed a summer internship at the Oklahoma Policy Institute. He is a decorated disabled veteran of the Oklahoma Army National Guard where he served as a Recruiting and Retention NCO and a Combat Medic with the 1/279…
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