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OK Early Release Law Legal
Loaded on Jan. 15, 1995
published in Prison Legal News
January, 1995, page 12
In response to prison overcrowding, the Oklahoma state legislature has passed the Oklahoma Prison Overcrowding Emergency Powers Act, Oklahoma Statute 57, § 570-576. The act permits the prison system to release prisoners with less than medium custody convicted of lesser crimes in order to free up prison space. Timothy Keeton, ...
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