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Escaping Oklahoma’s Female Prison Epidemic: NBC Left Field
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August 2, 2017
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5:57Now PlayingOklahoma’s prisons are home to the largest number of female inmates per capita in the country. And for people like Aliea — who says she’s been addicted to drugs since the age of 12, and just finished serving her second prison sentence — the state’s harsh drug laws mean that the cycle of addiction and incarceration can be almost impossible to break.
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