parole
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Barrow County Superior Court Judge Nicholas Primm said sentencing juveniles to life imprisonment without parole was unusual because of their youth.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026
Superior Court Judge Nicholas Primm sentenced Gray to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
From Barron's ● Jul. 28, 2026
Under his plea deal with US authorities, Zambada faced a mandatory minimum term of life imprisonment without parole on a racketeering charge.
From Barron's ● Jul. 20, 2026
Holder is carrying out his sentence in California State Prison, Corcoran, and will be eligible for parole in November 2039, according to the California Department of Corrections & Rehabilitation database.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 7, 2026
The vast majority of states continue to withhold the right to vote when people are released on parole.
From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander
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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
Like the board of pardons and paroles, Abbott was unmoved.
From Slate ● Oct. 18, 2024
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
Some six of the officers, highest in rank, refuse to give their paroles, except to go to Vera Cruz, and thence, perhaps, to the United States.
From The Medallic History of the United States of America 1776-1876 by Jacquemart, Jules-Ferdinand
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
Her attorneys noted that DHS determined she was not a flight risk when she was paroled into the country and that her detention was unjustified.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 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
Advocates and community members have long agreed that D.C. needs a new paroling authority.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 19, 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
“State paroling systems vary so much that it is almost impossible to compare them,” Jorge Renaud, an analyst at the Prison Policy Initiative, a think tank, wrote in a report earlier this year.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 25, 2019
On the same day the Raleigh and the Baltimore secured the surrender of the batteries on Corregidor Island, paroling the garrison and destroying the guns.
From The Greater Republic A History of the United States by Morris, Charles
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