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Among the 46 wrongful conviction cases in Oklahoma, more than half were overturned based on some form of prosecutorial misconduct.

https://www.oklahoman.com/story/news/2025/06/04/the-innocence-project-oklahoma-wrongful-convictions-like-glynn-simmons/83233727007/ #

Hundreds could be in Oklahoma prisons on a wrongful conviction. This group helps them find justice Misleading evidence and prosecutors' misconduct put innocent people in prison, Miller says. Justice demands improvement in the system.

https://www.newsweek.com/joe-biden-urged-prevent-trump-death-row-ex*****on-spree-1981920?link_id=0&can_id=a667bfa2aaeb00ee3fd09c20a5b43759&source=email-urgent-not-a-moment-to-lose-4&email_referrer=email_2522621&email_subject=newsweek-exclusive-joe-biden-urged-to-prevent-death-row-ex*****on-spree-under-trump

Joe Biden urged to prevent death row ex*****on spree under Trump Thirteen inmates were put to death in an unprecedented run of federal ex*****ons in the final six months of Trump's first term.

https://amp.oklahoman.com/amp/8106196002

McGirt decision not retroactive, appeals court rules Oklahoma Court of Appeals says it would not be justice to reverse murder conviction.

https://kfor.com/news/local/oklahoma-city-plans-to-address-settlement-in-wrongfully-convicted-death-row-inmates-lawsuit/

Oklahoma City plans to address settlement in wrongfully-convicted death row inmate’s lawsuit An Oklahoma City man wrongfully convicted of murder and later sentenced to die for a crime he didn’t commit now seeks justice for himself.

https://thecrimereport.org/2021/07/30/second-chance-pell-grants-program-expands-to-200-schools-in-2022/

‘Second Chance’ Pell Grants Program Expands to 200 Schools in 2022 | The Crime Report The Pell grant program offers educational opportunities to incarcerees who have been previously unable to access federal need-based financial aid. According to a Vera Institute of Justice report, inmates who participated in the program were 13 percent more likely to obtaining employment post-release...

http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/local/tulsa-police-department-continues-to-battle-attrition-as-cadets-graduate/article_5095ccd2-74d7-5887-b810-7210cd6da103.html

Tulsa Police Department continues to battle attrition as 25 cadets graduate from academy Capt. Matt McCord said the Tulsa Police Department’s “very high” rate of officer departure remains a challenge, but the newly graduated class of recruits helped move the needle.

https://www.vera.org/state-of-justice-reform/2017

A Watershed Year for Criminal Justice - A Look Back and Ahead

The State of Justice Reform 2017 In order to drive change in the justice system, one must pay attention to the map. In this interactive report, Vera Institute of Justice (Vera) identifies the…

Rather than asking “what’s the recidivism rate?” we should ask an entirely different set of questions about justice interventions. Look beyond the “yes or no” of recidivism and focus on factors that we know moderate criminal behavior—social bonds, education attainment, employment; they all facilitate what researchers call “desistance,” or the process by which people learn to become law-abiding.

The Recidivism Trap Counting failure is no way to encourage success.

“Innocent until proven guilty, unless you’re poor,” Sen. Gianaris said.

Changes to cash bail system proposed in NY This story happens more often than not according to the group. Young low-income offenders will often sit in jail for months before their case is ever heard, just because they can’t afford their bai…

“Since January he has told his attorneys not to seek cash bail for 25 charges; dropped 51 ma*****na charges, en masse; joined the mayor in pushing for Philadelphia to become the first U.S. city to open a safe injection site, a clinic where people can inject drugs under nurse supervision and receive addiction treatment if they choose; and he’s suing 10 pharmaceutical companies, alleging their marketing methods have fueled the opioid crisis.”

Philadelphia’s New Top Prosecutor Is Rolling Out Wild, Unprecedented Criminal Justice Reforms “These policies are an effort to end mass incarceration and bring balance back to sentencing.”