21.   To launch the plan, authorities offered a slightly shorter sentence to an inmate at the Perryville prison complex who is associated with the Aryan Brotherhood.

22.   Two others would remain in prison with shorter sentences.

23.   Defense attorney Tommy Spina argued that the four were liars who made Hooks the scapegoat to get shorter sentences.

24.   However, the prosecution opened for a shorter sentence of six years.

25.   Hubbell also could ask the court for a shorter sentence or probation.

26.   Jails generally keep inmates awaiting trial or serving shorter sentences.

27.   Krishak received the shorter sentence because he had testified against his former colleagues.

28.   Prisons usually hold convicted criminals sentenced to terms longer than one year, while jails generally keep inmates with shorter sentences or awaiting trial.

29.   Ressam was convicted and became a cooperating witness in hopes of receiving a shorter sentence.

30.   SHORTER sentences will be meted out to ecstasy dealers after Court of Appeal judges yesterday accepted the rave drug was neither addictive nor deadly.