(Stillwater, Okla.) -- An ex-convict from Cushing -- who told a judge that she is a drug addict -- has been sent back to prison for four years for violating the terms of her probation in three felony cases.

Larita Sherrie Franklin, 30, told District Judge Donald Worthington in court, "I did a six-month drug program in prison," but she said that she is still on drugs.

"I've been out of prison one and one-half years," she told the judge, who noted "efforts have been made in several cases to get her help," before he revoked her probation and ordered her back to prison last week.

Franklin's court-appointed attorney, Virginia Banks, had argued, "She's already had drug treatment in prison. Our prisons, in spite of their programs, do not solve the problem.

"She's told that she has a drug addiction problem. She's asking to sentence her to the (Payne County) Drug Court program," which the judge declined to do.

Prosecutor Charles Rogers had argued in court, "She commits crimes, is placed on probation. She commits other crimes, is placed on probation. This is not a person that needs to be on probation."

Since she's been out of prison, Franklin was charged with possessing morphine and knowingly concealing DVD movies that were allegedly stolen from a relative's home east of Cushing on June 22.

She also was charged with passing five forged checks on the account of a Cushing man who said he had allowed her into his house to do laundry on Jan. 27.

She admitted to Cushing Police Officer Bradley Staggs that she got the checks off the man's bed and "went around town writing checks all in one day," court records allege.

Both of her new felony cases remain pending in Payne County District Court.

In 2007, Franklin had been placed on probation with an order to pay $3,409 restitution for passing five forged checks in 2004, and for cocaine possession in 2006, with an order to complete Drug Court, court records show.

In 2008, for knowingly concealing stolen property and committing burglary in 2007, Franklin was ordered to pay restitution and given a six-year prison term -- which the judge changed to probation eight months later after she completed a prison boot camp program, court records show.

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