Life in Prison Doesn't Mean Life in Prison
Meet Deszmonde Lamont Shoals. Shoals murdered someone when he was 16 years old in 1991 and plead guilty to first degree murder and was sentenced to life in prison. We know from his OSCN.net record that he tried and failed twice for post conviction relief in the early part of the 2000's and from his prison intake record below we know that he was still in prison in 2015.
Then Shoals turns up in Edmond, arrested for Actual Physical Control, AKA drunk driving or passed out somewhere sitting in a car drivers seat.
The actual sentencing was 50 years, and the murder must have been a heinous murder for a sixteen year old to get life in prison. Yet somehow the guy is turned back out on the streets and once again is endangering the rest of society because some softhearted social worker or Pardon and Parole official thought he had been rehabilitated.
And Oklahoma puts too many people in prison we are told? Maybe to pay for but cheaper prisons that are self sustaining with inmate labor, to the point that they are self sustaining financially is the answer.
