High female incarceration rate bemoaned by Oklahoma officials

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'State lawmakers and prison workers said Thursday that policy changes are needed to lower Oklahoma's incarceration rate for women — the highest in the nation — and do a better job returning women to their communities and families after they have served their sentence.
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Sen. Constance Johnson, D-Oklahoma City, said Oklahoma's criminal justice policies have resulted in incarceration rates for women that are almost twice the national average. The state's incarceration rate for women is 131 per 100,000 residents while the national average is 69 per 100,000.
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"We have an almost warehousing of women in Oklahoma," said Fields, who has six felony convictions for nonviolent offenses and is a University of Oklahoma student working toward a degree in petroleum engineering.'