81.   The Corrections Department says that jails for adults are filled to three times capacity, mostly because of an upsurge in drug crimes in recent years.

82.   The defendants - mostly minorities charged with various drug crimes after being stopped on state highways - contend prosecutions against them were tainted by biased state troopers.

83.   The longer prison times are the result of federal laws passed over the past two decades that require mandatory minimum sentences for drug crimes, researchers said.

84.   The National Guard, which is part of the U.S. military, also has assisted local police fighting drug crime in Sumter, S.C., and Phoenix.

85.   The other involved an appeal by three natives of the Dominican Republic, Mexico and Guyana who were ordered deported for drug crimes in New York state.

86.   The overwhelming majority of those jailed on drug crimes are black or Hispanic.

87.   The trio includes two women who got entangled in the drug crimes of others.

88.   They said he was inadmissible because of his drug crime.

89.   Thirty-one others convicted of drug crimes also were sentenced, but details were not reported.

90.   Those convicted of aggravated felonies and drug crimes generally were not entitled to court review at all.