A woman with a chance to get released early from prison under the Oklahoma Survivors Act will stay behind bars.

Tulsa County District Judge Sharon Holmes denied the request, stating the law requires Erica Harrison to have been an intimate partner with Calvin Anderson, not a rape victim.

Harrison was sentenced to 25 years in prison. She says Anderson raped her twice, once when she was a teenager. She said one night when he physically threatened her, she shot and killed him.

Harrison has served 12 years, but petitioned to be released under the Oklahoma Survivors Act. Signed into law in 2024, it allows sentencing relief for victims of domestic and sexual violence.

Judge Holmes told the court that the law is specific and narrow, and does not include rape. Holmes said if the legislature wan

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