1.   Even the most hardened criminal would have been shocked by the brutality of the crime.

2.   New secure units to hold hardened young criminals would stop bail bandits in their tracks.

3.   Teenagers should not be sent to prison to mix with hardened criminals.

4.   I will grant the most hardened criminal a reprieve rather than see him hang.

5.   Americans see dire criminals given soft time and hardened criminals getting paroled and walking the streets.

6.   And asylum applicants are often held not in INS detention centers but in state and local prisons, where they are mixed in with hardened criminals.

7.   And in many ways, he delivered with a budget that will reduce spending and taxes, toughen welfare requirements and lengthen sentences for hardened criminals.

8.   But they argue that the INS should only go after hardened criminals.

9.   By vacancies, he clearly meant highly secure prison quarters for hardened criminals, as he has characterized members of the Taliban and al-Qaida.

10.   Civil liberties and human rights groups have opposed these laws, contending that treating children as adults will turn them into hardened criminals.