Webinars

Community Conversation: Empowering Change in Oklahoma's Criminal Justice Reform Landscape in 2024

Join our Community Conversation on Empowering Change in Oklahoma's Criminal Justice Reform Landscape in 2024! In the grand tapestry of history, the evolution of criminal justice has been both a reflection and catalyst of societal values.

Community Conversation: Beyond Bars and Beyond: Understanding LGBTQIA+ Over-Incarceration

Join ACLU Oklahoma, Foundation for Liberating Minds, and us for a thought-provoking webinar that delves into the critical issue of LGBTQIA+ over-incarceration. Our Community Conversation will shed light on the unique challenges faced by LGBTQIA+ individuals within the criminal justice system and explore pathways to create a more equitable and inclusive future.

Community Conversation: Breaking the Cycle - Mental Health and Incarceration

Join us for a thought-provoking and insightful webinar as we delve into the critical intersection of mental health and incarceration.

Keeping Families Together: Pretrial Justice

Oklahomans deserve a pretrial system that supports families. Our state currently has one of the highest pretrial incarceration rates in the country.

Discussing Oklahoma's Relationship with Capital Punishment

Oklahoma was the first state and first jurisdiction in the world to adopt lethal injection as its method of execution. In fact, it is one of the remaining 27 states that still utilizes the practice.

Show chat replay Community Conversation- Data & Transparency in Oklahoma's Criminal Legal System

We are thrilled to announce our legislative priorities for the upcoming year as well as share the data and resources we have shared with our legislators through interim studies.

Felony Classification Webinar: Modernizing Oklahoma's Outdated Criminal Code

We are thrilled to announce our legislative priorities for the upcoming year as well as share the data and resources we have shared with our legislators through interim studies.

It's Time for Justice!

It’s time for justice and we need you! Join us and Together Oklahoma as we discuss critical criminal justice issues leading up to the coming election and legislative session. Find out about opportunities to get involved and practical ways you can make a difference.

Oklahomans for Criminal Justice Reform 2023 Policy Agenda Reveal

We are thrilled to announce our legislative priorities for the upcoming year as well as share the data and resources we have shared with our legislators through interim studies.

Introduction to the Square One Project: Reimagining Safety and Justice in Oklahoma

Oklahoma continues to lead the nation with the worst policing, incarceration, and sentencing records. We cannot continue in this destructive cycle of mass incarceration in the supposed name of public safety. We must reevaluate and interrogate how we think of safety and justice in our community and our response to harm. Listen along as we dive into an ongoing initiative in Oklahoma to reimagine safety and justice.

Community Conversations: Decriminalizing Health Crises – Mental Health & Substance Abuse in Oklahoma

True treatment is needed, not punishment. We cannot continue to criminalize health issues. Doing so is to further impair the wellbeing of our citizens, our community, as well as our economy. So what is Oklahoma doing to rectify this wrong?

A Legal System that Isn't Just: Racial Disparities in Oklahoma's Criminal System

For decades Oklahoma has led the nation and the world in incarceration. We’ve been number one in incarcerating women and people of color. Unjust racial disparities exists in the criminal legal system from policing to the prison population.

Early Access Screening of Apart Plus an Exclusive Screening Discussion

McGirt: Validating Sovereignty & Managing Impact

Are you having trouble navigating the implications of McGirt v. Oklahoma? Do you have questions? Our webinar discusses this and so much more.

Community Conversations: Second Chance Employment & Economic Growth

Every year nearly 700,000 people return home from incarceration within the U.S. That equates to 70 million US citizens with a criminal record—-approximately one-third of working age U.S. adults.

Building Better Futures: A Discussion on the Detrimental Effects of a Criminal Conviction

Oklahomans involved in the criminal justice system have an average of $25,000+ in court debt due to court-levied fines and fees. These financial obligations create a vicious cycle that is often perpetrated most harshly on Oklahoma's communities of color.

Community Conversations: Why We Need to Talk About Mental Health

Oklahomans for Criminal Justice Reform held a community conversation on mental health and resources related to criminal justice reform.

Community Conversations: COVID-19 and Prisons

Oklahomans for Criminal Justice Reform held a Community Conversation on COVID-19 and Oklahoma’s prisons, you can catch up here. Thank you again to our panelists from Oklahoma Department of Corrections, Oklahoma Policy Institute and Prison Fellowship!

Community Conversations: Fines & Fees: The Hidden Cost of Our Courts

"Each year, there is about $130-140 million levied against people convicted of felonies or misdemeanors and less than $50 million collected."

Community Conversations: Criminal Fines and Fees

Oklahomans for Criminal Justice Reform hosted a community conversation on the intricacies of criminal fines and fees in Oklahoma.

Community Conversations: Impacts of Incarceration

Oklahomans for Criminal Justice Reform hosted a community conversation on the impacts of incarceration. Incarceration doesn’t just affect the inmate; it harms their kids, partners & parents.

Community Conversations: Pre-Trial Detention & Diversion

Join Oklahomans for Criminal Justice Reform in a community conversation about pre-trial services, detention and diversion programs in Oklahoma.