BY ZEKE CAMPFIELD zcampfield@opubco.com
Six weeks after the leaders of a prison reform board resigned, Oklahoma's top elected officials are moving forward on the reforms without them.
Nearly $3.5 million is available to implement the Justice Reinvestment Act in the state budget agreement announced Wednesday — a million of which will allow Department of Corrections to ramp up the number of probation and parole officers for the first time in years.
What former House Speaker Kris Steele and Oklahoma County District Attorney David Prater lamented as dead on arrival in March appears now to be trudging along again — albeit in much smaller scope than either of the men envisioned.
“There is absolutely no evidence that we are not going down a road full-bore — the only evidence you have is we didn't ask for federal assistance on training only,” said Steve Mullins, general counsel to Gov.
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