Pay or your son dies: Oklahoma inmates’ families extorted by inside gangs

by Oklahoma Watch | Ruby Topalian
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Cynthia stares at a pile of the Green Dot reloadable debit cards that accumulated over seven years of extortion. That pile is a portion of the hundreds of cards Cynthia has purchased. She said most of the time she loaded $250 on them and would often need to do this multiple times in one sitting to have enough money to send the extortionists. (Ruby Topalian/Oklahoma Watch)


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