Big fight at Oklahoma State Reformatory. A dozen injured. Two killed. We couldn’t help noticing the rather blase official attitude conveyed in the report at NewsOK.com:

Prison officials had the prison locked down within five minutes, [Jerry] Massie [a spokesman for the Oklahoma Department of Corrections] said.

“It was over with fairly quickly,” he said.

Massie categorized the incident as a disturbance and not a riot, because inmates didn’t destroy property. There were no assaults on staff, nor any attempt to take over the prison, he said.

Whew. No biggie. Unless you’re among the dead or injured, that is. In any case, is this the kind of environment to which those with the temerity to petition the government should be relegated? Oklahoma Attorney General Drew Edmondson, the man trying to imprison the Oklahoma Three, thinks so.