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"Over the last three decades, Oklahoma's prison population has skyrocketed to nearly 27,000 inmates, and the state's corrections budget now approaches half a billion dollars each year.In 2012, the Legislature passed and the governor signed the Justice Reinvestment Initiative, intended to reduce the prison population and save the state money through a leaner Department of Corrections.A review of JRI-related documents obtained from Gov. Mary Fallin found her administration at times undermined the initiative, much of which remains undone or unfunded.Many experts contend any real progress on inmate growth won't be achieved without a complete overhaul of the state's harsh criminal sentencing codes, a major political challenge in a conservative state with a tough-on-crime reputation.Crime footer"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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