Giving Oklahoma its criminal justice reform due

Regular readers will not be surprised to hear more about red-state Oklahoma’s interesting and important criminal justice reform efforts, as I have tried to highlight here repeatedly the more-than-okay news from the OK state.  But with record-setting clemency developments (first noted here), the mainstream media is catching up as evidence by these recent pieces:

From the Boston Globe, “What a conservative state can teach us about progressive criminal justice reform“

From US News, “Oklahoma Focuses on Criminal Justice Reform“

From the Washington Post, “Oklahoma approves largest single-day commutation in U.S. history“

UPDATE: Here are a few more new pieces from the national media:

From CNN, “462 Oklahoma inmates will be released today in the largest commutation in US history“

From USA Today, “Hundreds of Oklahoma inmates to be freed, the largest mass release in US history“