11.   The decision is expected to shorten sentences for thousands of prisoners, including those convicted of burglary and drug offenses, by up to two months.

12.   The government has promised to build new prisons to ease overcrowding and to shorten sentences but it warned that this could not be done unless order is restored.

13.   These groups won a rare victory when state legislators reversed a law that would have shortened sentences for rapists judged to have been provoked by their victims.

14.   These groups won a rare victory Tuesday when state legislators reversed a law that would have shortened sentences for rapists judged to have been provoked by their victims.

15.   The sentence was later shortened, and he was freed in July.

16.   The sentence will be shortened by the three months Pakpahan has already spent in prison, Alamshah said.

17.   Justices said the state unconstitutionally had denied a group of violent felons the right to shorten their sentences by working and following prison rules.

18.   Kurdish separatist Mehdi Zana should be released from jail, following a decision to shorten his sentence after Ankara amended draconian anti-terrorist legislation, his lawyer said Friday.

19.   Some will be pardoned while others will have their sentences shortened, Tunis-Afrique-Presse said.