51.   The Senate also approved an amendment offered by Sen. Phil Gramm, R- Texas, that would deny welfare and Medicaid benefits to people convicted of drug crimes.

52.   The vast majority of people arrested on drug crimes are charged with Class B felonies.

53.   The White House favors legislation that would require locks on every firearm sold and impose tougher penalties for the use of guns in committing violent or drug crimes.

54.   The War on Drugs eventually led to taking property from those arrested for drug crimes, even if they were never successfully prosecuted or even indicted.

55.   There has been little objection to searching prison convicts or suspects charged with violent felonies or drug crimes.

56.   This country now has more than one million prisoners, many of them sentenced to long terms for nonviolent drug crimes.

57.   Under the new law, people convicted of drug crimes are generally ineligible for Federal welfare benefits, but states may override the ban by passing laws.

58.   Under his proposal, the governor would lessen the minimum sentence for some defendants convicted of nonviolent drug crimes.

59.   We are building ever more prisons to house mainly nonviolent offenders, most sentenced for drug crimes.

60.   Where prisoners sentenced for drug crimes do predominate, the report said, is in the federal prison system.