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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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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