Almost half of all convicts are now serving sentences of ten years or more, compared with under 2% in 1995.

目前近半数的囚犯刑期长达10年或者10年以上，而在1995年，这一比例不到2%。

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This experience left a deep impression on him, and made him determined to do something for convicts and slaves and for all who were oppressed and deprived of their liberty.

这段经历给他留下了深刻的印象，使他决心为囚犯和奴隶以及所有被压迫和被剥夺自由的人做些事情。

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The prisoners were credited with saving the guard's life, but for all their heroism, the convicts received nothing but congratulatory letters from the sheriff's department.

这些罪犯因为救了狱监的命而被表扬，但是他们的英雄行为，只换来了治安官的表扬信而已。

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Almost half of all convicts are now serving sentences of ten years or more, compared with under 2% in 1995.

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For the entire time I never once spent the night in the colony, where all the convicts were supposed to serve their sentence.

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In the first nine months of fiscal 2010, federal judges cited Booker to sentence 13.4% of all federal convicts to below guideline terms.

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