In a tough on crime state once dubbed the “world’s prison capital,” 527 inmates walked out of Oklahoma prisons Monday in the largest single-day commutation in state and national history.

Their judicial sentences were commuted after Oklahoma voters passed State Question 780 in 2016 to reclassify simple drug possession as a misdemeanor and increase the felony dollar threshold from $500 to $1,000 for felony property crimes.

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