parole
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Wade’s parole grant was rescinded on Sept. 1, according to California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation records.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026
The Marin County District Attorney’s Office opposed the parole board’s decision, maintaining that Wade is still dangerous.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026
Leroy applied for parole five times while in prison, but was rejected each time due to what his family said was incomplete courses.
From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026
They imposed a minimum sentence for offenders, but no maximum or end date, with criminals having to serve the minimum term before being considered for release by the parole board.
From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026
In particular, the Louisiana clients serving life without parole for non-homicides faced many challenges.
From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson
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Initially, both sides assumed that the familiar practice of cartels and paroles would be maintained.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 20, 2026
“These paroles have since been terminated with immediate effect,” the agency announced on X. Again, it was unclear specifically who this applied to and if these individuals were notified.
From Slate ● Apr. 16, 2025
District Judge T. Kent Wetherell issued a “show cause order” giving the administration until the afternoon to explain what happened and, if true, to argue how the paroles didn’t violate his restraining order.
From Washington Times ● May 15, 2023
Huynh said the recidivism rates for the people who go through Defy Ventures’ Entrepreneurs in Training program is far lower than the average, but some do reoffend or violate their paroles.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 2, 2023
He paroles him, dating the parole at the city of Richmond.
From The Boys of '61 or, Four Years of Fighting, Personal Observations with the Army and Navy by Charles Carleton Coffin
One of them was sentenced to life with the possibility of parole, and the other was paroled after cooperating with investigators.
From Slate ● Aug. 25, 2026
But after serving less than a year of his five-year sentence he was paroled and released due to overcrowding.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 26, 2026
Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said the U.S. government was bound by a Biden-era court settlement to expedite asylum claims of Afghans paroled into the U.S. under Operation Allies Welcome.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 28, 2025
"This is an ongoing sentence from which I can never be paroled."
From Barron's ● Nov. 25, 2025
“Don’t be so dramatic,” said Vivian, who earlier had told Maya-Jade that she felt as if she’d been paroled from prison.
From "Not Nothing" by Gayle Forman
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South Koreans have been divided over whether Mr. Lee was worth paroling.
From New York Times ● Aug. 9, 2021
“By ICE’s own policy, these are people that shouldn’t be in detention any longer,” Altman said, citing ICE’s process for paroling asylum-seekers until a judge decides their case.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 4, 2021
The HSI agent also wrote out a formal order paroling one of Mr. Sargsyan’s Armenian relatives into the U.S., and got his supervisor to sign off, Mr. Sargsyan says.
From Washington Times ● Apr. 29, 2020
Human-rights advocates say that paroling the perpetrators threatens the entire logic of international criminal law.
From The New Yorker ● Jul. 9, 2018
Sensitive to such stinging thrusts and no friend of wanton persecution, Lincoln attempted to mitigate the rigors of the law by paroling many political prisoners.
From History of the United States by Charles A. (Charles Austin) Beard
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