51.   That plan increases minimum sentences for many violent crimes and ends parole for repeat violent offenders.

52.   The bias compiles all the way up the line to prosecutors who decide whether to seek a maximum or a minimum sentence.

53.   The bill would also increase the minimum sentence for providing a handgun to a minor to five years, up from one year.

54.   The Conservatives, for example, will move to impose harsher minimum sentences on drug dealers and repeat burglars.

55.   The conviction carries a mandatory minimum sentence of three years in state prison.

56.   The device did not explode, and the woman, Harawase Rhennae Moore, got the minimum sentence.

57.   The entry on mandatory minimum sentences, for instance, points out the disparity in punishment for possessing crack and powder cocaine.

58.   The House approved tough mandatory minimum sentences to combat juvenile crime.

59.   The majority of them are up on drug-related crimes, and many are there as a result of mandatory minimum sentences.

60.   The new package sharply increases mandatory minimum sentences meted out to first-time violent offenders and eliminates their chance for parole.