Oklahoma second highest in incarceration rates in the U.S. in 2016

The John H. Lilley Correctional Center is in Boley. [Photo by Nate Billings, The Oklahoman Archives]

Recently released statistics from a federal study put Oklahoma's incarceration rate as the second highest in the country in 2016.

Data from the U.S. Department of Justice's Bureau of Justice Statistics shows 673 people incarcerated per 100,000 residents in Oklahoma, behind Louisiana's 760 inmates per 100,000 residents.

The national average was 397 per 100,000.

Oklahoma continued to rank highest in the nation, as it has for more than two decades, for the incarceration rate of women.