11.   Inmates serving shorter sentences have more incentive to give samples because they can be denied credits that could get them out of prison earlier.

12.   Individual judges, however, still have the ability to grant probation when they deem it warranted, possibly resulting in shorter sentences.

13.   It was those former confederates, whose testimony was given in return for shorter sentences, who helped clinch the case against Bonin.

14.   Ma was held for nearly three years by the INS in Seattle after completing a shorter sentence in state prison for his part in a gang-related shooting.

15.   Ms. Ames asked the judge to invoke his discretionary authority to make the sentence even shorter.

16.   Prosecutors insisted that the people in minority communities are not clamoring for shorter sentences.

17.   State legislators passed tougher juvenile crime laws, sending younger offenders to prison and nonviolent offenders to state jails for shorter sentences.

18.   The law sets shorter mandatory sentences for possession or sale of smaller amounts.

19.   The resulting violence feeds the animosity of others, many of whom have shorter sentences and carry their hate to the free world.

20.   The three senior guides received shorter suspended sentences and smaller fines, and the two junior guides were acquitted.