criminal record

Example Sentences

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The vast majority of those detained for deportation, including those who have died, had no criminal record.

From Salon • Mar. 25, 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

People will show up for what used to be routine interviews, whether it’s a bona fide marriage, even though they don’t have a criminal record, and yet, without warning, they’ll be detained.

From Slate • Feb. 2, 2026

In Los Angeles, during a surge in operations last summer, statistics showed that more than half of the immigrants detained in sweeps had no criminal record.

From Barron's • Feb. 1, 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