The poorest Oklahomans inevitably fall behind on their payments and are victim to an endless cycle of bench warrants, arrests, driver’s license suspensions and incarceration, thus exacerbating the state’s incarceration problem.

It was in a VOICE meeting about five years ago when I first felt in my soul the social and political segregation we live in here in Oklahoma.

VOICE calls for end to overincarceration of mentally ill, low level, nonviolent crimes, and jailing for debt