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Boudin, a member of the radical Weather Underground, was imprisoned for 22 years for her role in the fatal 1981 holdup of a Brink’s armored truck. The mother of current San Francisco DA Chesa Boudin, she had worked in programs helping ex-incarcerees reenter civilian life after her release on parole.

“The people in Oklahoma are not more criminogenic than the people in other states, and yet we have the highest incarceration rates,” said Kris Steele of Oklahomans for Criminal Justice Reform. The state legislature largely failed to act on the issue this year.