1.   Because habitual offenders are filling prisons, first-time offenders are getting out more quickly.

2.   Getting tough on crime meant filling prisons with HIV-positive inmates.

3.   If uniformly enforced, it would have filled British prisons and depopulated much of Oxford and Cambridge, Eton and Harrow, Whitehall and the Houses of Parliament.

4.   Long mandatory minimum sentences have filled our prisons with nonviolent drug offenders and made them, and their families, damaged beings for the rest of their lives.

5.   Q. You write that filling prisons is not the way to lower the crime rate, and call the death penalty ineffectual.

6.   The din that fills the prison, says Gibson, is a constant irritant.

7.   The war on drugs fills our prisons without reducing drug use.

8.   This is why Claus von Bulow is a free man while our prisons are filled with sons of the ghetto.

9.   According to officials, four inmates, hoping to escape, started a riot Friday afternoon while the prison was filled with Christmas visitors.

10.   The prison was filled with Christmas visitors at the time.