“Houston-Brown’s defense attorney successfully persuaded a Tulsa County prosecutor, and judge, that her client’s underlying condition driving her criminal behavior—an addiction to methamphetamine—could not get better in prison.
“Instead, her attorney argued, Houston-Brown would be best served if she could enter a few-of-its kind outpatient drug treatment program, Women in Recovery, a public-private service in Tulsa that specializes in helping people like her.”