Feb 13, 2025 | Criminal Justice, Featured
Locked In: How Oklahoma’s Harsh Sentences and Parole Process Keep People Behind Bars In October of 2024, an interim study examined Oklahoma’s uniquely lengthy criminal sentencing. The study, requested by Rep. Danny Williams (R-Seminole), also examined the...
Jul 25, 2024 | Criminal Justice, Featured
Diversion Hub: Bright Future, Current Successes Diversion Hub connects justice-involved individuals to social services and programs to minimize their contact with the criminal legal system — reducing the pressure on Oklahoma’s jail and prisons. Clients receive various...
Jul 2, 2024 | Criminal Justice, Featured
Live Free OKC: Impact on Gun Homicides in Northeast OKC Live Free OKC hosted a press conference on July 1, 2024, to give a status update on gun homicides in Northeast OKC. Live Free OKC, founded in August of 2023, aims to dramatically reduce gun violence in impacted...
Jun 28, 2024 | Criminal Justice, Featured
Diversion Programs Successfully Lower Incarceration Rates OSBI’s most recent crime reporting shows that in 2021 the crime rate in Oklahoma City was 77.88 per 1,000 residents, compared to 102.72 per 1,000 in Tulsa. Additional reporting by the FBI shows that crimes...
May 30, 2024 | Criminal Justice, Featured
National Treatment Court Month “Drug courts are a place where people can and do change,” said District Judge Kenneth Stoner in a recent op-ed. “In fact, when people are engaged with compassion and accountability, that change is not just possible, it’s probable and...
May 23, 2024 | Criminal Justice, Featured, Homelessness
OK Economic Mobility and Second Chances Roundtable On April 12, 2024 — business leaders, nonprofits, and elected officials met to discuss advancing second chance opportunities for justice-involved individuals at the Economic Mobility Roundtable, presented by Arnall...
