criminal record

Example Sentences

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So all those 1,100 people sitting there at the time in that trailer prison, none of them had a criminal record.

From Slate • Mar. 20, 2026

Those applying must prove they have spent at least five months in the country and not have a criminal record.

From BBC • Mar. 8, 2026

On Wednesday, CNN shared body camera footage from the shooting of Marimar Martinez, a Montessori school teacher in Chicago with no criminal record.

From Salon • Feb. 13, 2026

Harris said most of people held at the detention facility “have no criminal record whatsoever, and yet the government treats them worse than the highest-security criminals.”

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 11, 2026

Fully 70 percent of men between the ages of eighteen and forty-five in the impoverished and overwhelmingly black North Lawndale neighborhood on Chicago’s West Side are saddled for life with a criminal record.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander