lawbreakers

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King County describes the diversions program as a way of “bypassing prosecution and jail time” and instead connecting lawbreakers with case managers, housing and other taxpayer-funded support.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 12, 2026

This time, though, we know who the lawbreakers are, but at least initially, not their very human, messy motivations.

From Salon • Sep. 7, 2025

We can’t put those lawbreakers back behind bars.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 29, 2025

Following years of overexploitation in the Amazon rainforest -- due mainly to illegal logging -- the government began to take tough countermeasures, introducing satellite surveillance and deploying the military to tackle lawbreakers.

From Science Daily • Dec. 21, 2023

He had, it is true, been created a justice of the peace, but it would seem hardly proper for him to try lawbreakers who were attacking his own personal interests.

From The Red River Colony A Chronicle of the Beginnings of Manitoba by Wood, Louis Aubrey