1.   As it is, drug dealers and others in prison for drug-related offenses can get steep sentence reductions.

2.   First, he cited case law allowing sentence reductions for inmates whose incarceration could subject them to abuse.

3.   He presented the sentence reductions as a way to reduce overcrowding in the prisons.

4.   In the United States, they said, any jailed trafficker would testify against them in return for sentence reductions.

5.   Nebgen said that because Symington refused to own up to his crimes, he should not be credited with any sentence reduction on the issue of responsibility.

6.   With expected good-behavior sentence reductions, Lerner is likely to be released next year.

7.   Only a small handful of prisoners including assassin Yigal Amir, who killed prime minister Yitzhak Rabin, have been denied weekends off and eligibility for sentence reduction.

8.   Others may get sentence reductions.

9.   Previously, cartel leaders had demanded sentence reductions without having to confess and that they serve any prison sentence in their homes or in specially made prisons.

10.   Alarcon suggested that there could be sentence reductions or early releases on humanitarian grounds for aged or ill prisoners convicted of common crimes or other offenses.