11.   Adult prison beds are increasingly reserved for violent offenders.

12.   Allowing no distinctions even among violent offenders could be counterproductive, leaving little or no incentive for rehabilitation.

13.   But Beck said the chances that a violent offender like McKenna would be released by the parole board were slim.

14.   But he draws the line at violent offenders, particularly in professional colleges, such as law and medicine.

15.   But Michael McKeon, a spokesman for Pataki, said the governor would almost certainly not agree to a plan that allowed some violent offenders to leave prison early.

16.   But she said no violent offenders would be released.

17.   But unlike Hamm or Davis, those applicants were not violent offenders, law-school dean Richard Morgan said.

18.   By pressuring appointees and signing bills, she also takes credit for halving the parole rate and doubling the amount of time violent offenders spend behind bars.

19.   Currently, a first-time violent offender who is sentenced to between four and one-half and nine years could be paroled after just four and one-half years.

20.   Detailed information is entered into a central state computer, and violent offenders, like Stevens and Smith, must remain registered for the rest of their lives.