71.   The resolution contained several other provisions beside the sentences for drug dealers, including mandatory minimum sentences for homicides and all other violent crimes involving homicides.

72.   The tentative agreement also would increase minimum sentences for a range of violent crimes, particularly for persistent offenders, state officials said.

73.   The wasteful cruelty of mandatory minimum sentences cries out for reform, but we are unlikely to get it soon.

74.   Their turf wars escalated the war on drugs and prompted states and the federal government to set mandatory minimum sentences.

75.   There were similarly stark disagreements over the Big Dig, Medicare and mandatory minimum sentences.

76.   Those measures would put even heavier pressures on a system already teeming with violent criminals as well as drug offenders serving mandatory minimum sentences.

77.   This year more than half a dozen states have rolled back some of their strictest anti-crime measures, including those imposing mandatory minimum sentences and forbidding early parole.

78.   Those mandates, known as the Rockefeller laws, require state judges to impose minimum sentences for a variety of drug offenses.

79.   Under federal law, cocaine dealers handling five grams of crack get mandatory minimum sentences of five years in prison.

80.   Typically, federal gun violations carry five-year minimum sentences.