I challenge every state to match Federal policy to assure that serious violent criminals serve at least 85 percent of their sentence.

We should not be granting these leaves to serious criminals.

Should private security patrols get city subsidies, and serious criminals be tried in special courts?

But will it take some of the most serious habitual criminals off the street?

A more sinister problem was that of hackers being approached by serious criminals, he said.

The prison houses some of the most serious criminals in Russia.

One way to avoid that, he said, is to sentence less serious criminals to shorter terms.

For a time, some judges here sent serious criminals to drug court, before publicity led to an end of that practice.

Because of this, people make the attractive and easy deduction that those behind bars constitute our most serious criminals.

"We live in an age when violence is increasing and drug trafficking brings many serious criminals into our court system."