“A lot of these are 20-, sometimes 30-year sentences on a crime that if charged now would be a misdemeanor.”
-Corbin Brewster, Tulsa County’s chief public defender, speaking about inmates sentenced before Oklahoma’s SQ 780 criminal justice reforms. Advocates are now fighting to have these sentences commuted [Tulsa World].
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