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Oklahomans for Criminal Justice Reform is dedicated to keeping you up to date on all things criminal legal reform as well as education that is based in national best practices and peer reviewed data from organizations across the nation.
- Why You Should Be A Criminal Legal Reform Advocate
- Our Top Policy Priorities This Legislative Session
- Women’s History Month: The Past, Present, and Future
- New Report: Analysis: Marijuana Enforcement in Oklahoma
- The Truths of SQ820
- How Can Law Enforcement Build Trust With Black Americans?
- Can Police Militarization Be Justified?
- A Step in the Right Direction: 2022 in Review
- Seven Reasons Why You Should Donate to Nonprofits This Giving Tuesday
- Your Vote is Your Voice
- The Scary and Horrifying Injustices of the Criminal Legal System
- It’s Time to Hold Legislators Accountable
- Oklahomans for Criminal Justice Reform’s 2023 Policy Agenda Reveal
- It’s Time for Oklahoma to Care About Data Collection
- Previewing the Legislative’s Upcoming Interim Studies
- An Effective Criminal Legal System Doesn’t Just Punish Crime, it Prevents It
- Narrowly Avoided Legislative Mistakes
- Oklahoma 2022 Legislative Successes
- The Truth about Trials: Open File Discovery
- Fact Check: Oklahomans are safer due to SQ780
- What would Clean Slate Legislation in Oklahoma look like?
- 7 Things to Look for this Legislative Session
- Bigler Stouffer & The Ineffectiveness of Clemency to Determine Innocence
- How Poverty Drives Violent Crime
- Jones and Rittenhouse: A Tale of Two Very Different Criminal Legal Systems
- Executive Clemency: A Core Conservative Value
- Wayward Cops & Excessive Force: Police Accountability in Oklahoma
- 2022 Legislative Agenda Reveal
- Interim Study Report: District Attorney Accountability
- A Favorable Vote for Julius Jones: What it Means and What’s Next
- How Did We Get Here? A Historical Review of the Death Penalty in Oklahoma
- It’s National Women’s Equality Day—Why Do We Lock Up so Many Women and Girls?
- Allen McCall Resigns from Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board – Replaced with Former DA Richard Smothermon
- The Future of Reform: 2021 Policy Survey
- The American Dream for Who?
- William S. Keys Correctional Facility is Closing: What Now?
- Community Spotlight: OK Messages
- Trichell Jones: When Survivors Are Criminalized
- A Message from OCJR’s New Deputy Director
- 2021: Oklahoma Criminal Justice Reform Steps Forward, Steps Back
- AG’s Criminal Justice Council Releases Sentencing Plan for Oklahoma
- SB334: Creating Felons and Punishing Taxpayers
- Criminal Justice Reform Bills to Advocate For
- SQ781 Funding – Money for Addiction Treatment
- Oklahoma Senate Bill 686: Hospice Care Work Program
- Oklahoma House Bill 1625 – Possession with Intent to Distribute Reform
- Medical Parole Reform – HB1903, SB320, & SB396
- Oklahoma House Bill 2879 – Violence Prevention Innovation Fund
- Oklahoma Senate Bill 704 – Sentence Enhancement Reform
- Guiding Principles of Sentencing Reform
- Re-Entry Spotlight: R.I.S.E.
- Is Prosecution Changing? What the New Los Angeles DA’s Agenda Indicates for the Future of Top Cops
- RESTORATIVE JUSTICE: WHAT IS IT? WHO IS IT FOR? CAN IT WORK IN OKLAHOMA?
- How Can Oklahoma Safely Reduce Incarceration?