Count the Costs is a nonpartisan, statewide effort to identify evidence-based strategies which lower the incarceration rate of women in Oklahoma. Statewide policy groups, nonprofits, key agencies, organizations, advocates and stakeholders are taking part in this effort. Our purpose is to build statewide awareness, promote innovative and effective solutions using best practices, and effect change [...]
Count the Costs is a nonpartisan, statewide effort to identify evidence-based strategies which lower the incarceration rate of women in Oklahoma. Statewide policy groups, nonprofits, key agencies, organizations, advocates and stakeholders are taking part in this effort. Our purpose is to build statewide awareness, promote innovative and effective solutions using best practices, and effect change [...]
Count the Costs is a nonpartisan, statewide effort to identify evidence-based strategies which lower the incarceration rate of women in Oklahoma. Statewide policy groups, nonprofits, key agencies, organizations, advocates and stakeholders are taking part in this effort. Our purpose is to build statewide awareness, promote innovative and effective solutions using best practices, and effect change [...]
Count the Costs is a nonpartisan, statewide effort to identify evidence-based strategies which lower the incarceration rate of women in Oklahoma. Statewide policy groups, nonprofits, key agencies, organizations, advocates and stakeholders are taking part in this effort. Our purpose is to build statewide awareness, promote innovative and effective solutions using best practices, and effect change through facilitated partnerships and collaboration. Read More
by: BARBARA PALMER Oklahoma Watch Sunday, January 30, 2011 Editor’s Note Oklahoma Watch is an independent investigative and in-depth reporting team that partners with news organizations and higher education to produce impact journalism in the public interest. This is the first installment in a series of stories in which Oklahoma Watch, the Tulsa World and The Oklahoman are examining the issue of Oklahoma’s female incarceration rate. For more, visit tulsaworld.com/okwatch. In...
Women in Recovery program in Tulsa succeeding with treatment instead of punishment A Tulsa-based public-private partnership, Women in Recovery, is a pilot program for alternative treatment programs lawmakers are considering enacting elsewhere in Oklahoma in order to alleviate the state’s prison crisis. BY JOHN ESTUS jestus@opubco.com Oklahoman Published: December 12, 2010 Deanise...
Oklahoma City developing program similar to Tulsa’s Women in Recovery Women in Recovery was created to reduce Oklahoma’s nation-leading female incarceration rate. BY JOHN ESTUS jestus@opubco.com Oklahoman 1 Published: December 12, 2010 The Oklahoma City metro area will soon have an alternative sentencing option...