Prisoners in those states already serve at least 85 percent of their sentences.

No prisoner was freed, despite the fact that under law prisoners may be released after having served 30 percent of their sentences.

Including murderers, they had served 35 percent of their sentences.

This truth in sentencing legislation required federal prisoners to serve 85 percent of their sentences.

The other defendants must serve at least 85 percent of their sentences.

Most prisoners now serve about 40 percent of their sentences before being paroled.

The Governor's proposal would require felons to serve at least 85 percent of their maximum sentences before being released.

Under the measure, felons would have been required to serve at least 85 percent of their sentences.

In 1988, he said, violent offenders served only 43 percent of their sentences, compared with 51 percent today.

The federal prison system requires all inmates to serve at least 85 percent of their sentences.