"This is aimed at the people who regularly import guns into the city and those are hard-core criminals."

"This could help prevent jail overcrowding by getting to them before they're hard-core criminals," he said.

She was taken to Bedford, a maximum-security prison full of hard-core criminals, and felt something odd.

"It is a hard choice, being treated like really hard-core criminals."

But I figure by this time next year most of the hard-core violent criminals are gonna be six feet under.

The four prisons are for hard-core criminals or repeat offenders.

Probably hard-core criminals initially, they will emerge from prison as tougher hardened criminals.

But experts expected the number of executions to decrease rapidly as the most hard-core criminals were exterminated.

Violent, relentless, or hard-core criminals comprised but a tiny percentage of the population.

Even the most hard-core criminals have to watch their backs, because there is always someone more dangerous lurking around every corner.