OKLAHOMA CITY – A coalition of business and community leaders led by former state House Speaker Kris Steele is outlining a plan to reduce the state’s prison population by 5 percent over the next 10 years. Oklahomans for Criminal Justice Reform will push to retroactively apply a state question approved by voters in 2016 to ease penalties for drug and low-level property crimes. Steele said that change alone would allow for the immediate release of about 1,100 inmates and sentence […]
