Since I've been here, never has a released patient committed a violent felony.

At least four of the men had records that included robbery and violent felonies.

Rape is a violent felony, and it should be treated as such.

"Our focus is drug trafficking, murder and other violent felonies."

As of 1998, the year before the law went into effect, guns were used in 31,643 violent felonies in Florida.

Yet most parolees who return to prison are not sent back because they committed a serious violent felony.

Chambers challenged the failure to report, arguing that it was not a "violent felony."

He has ended parole for those convicted of repeated violent felonies.

But in most states, only violent felonies are included, and fewer than 100 people have been sentenced under the laws.

The law requires mandatory minimum sentences for the most violent felonies.