More than a million Americans are imprisoned for nonviolent offenses.

The 24 children have all been referred by Family Court for out-of-control behavior or nonviolent offenses.

My brother is in prison for a nonviolent offense, and I could help him gain early release.

Sixty percent of federal prisoners are serving time for nonviolent offenses, mostly to do with drugs.

He was initially arrested and confined to a county jail for a nonviolent offense.

Many of the prisoners who have been released were serving time for nonviolent offenses.

That's too bad, because 94 percent of the time that juveniles are arrested it is for a nonviolent offense.

The police said he had been arrested in 2000 for a nonviolent offense.

At the same time, he added, the city had no right to put people out on the street for nonviolent offenses.

Two-thirds of the prisoners are there for nonviolent offenses.