91.   State corrections officials in California, Texas and Pennsylvania all report that their prison populations have remained roughly flat over the last year, after years of steady increases.

92.   Texas has seen its prison population soar to the largest in the nation.

93.   Terhune said the growth of the prison population in California has been steadily slowing over the last three years.

94.   Texans have a no-nonsense penchant for managing their prison populations through the use of lethal injection.

95.   The court ruled that the conditions were an unconstitutional deprivation, and it ordered a cap on the prison population.

96.   The high prevalence of drug use and prostitution before incarceration makes the prison population especially vulnerable to HIV infection, the officials said.

97.   The hope is the prison population will then drop but high crime rates will not return.

98.   The fad in mandatory sentencing, and especially the fad in mandatory and long-term sentences for drug offences, has swelled prison populations massively in recent years.

99.   The measure also would make it harder for federal courts to declare prison crowding unconstitutional and make the use of caps on prison population a last resort.