offender
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New South Wales police say the officers will also patrol major events like sports matches and places of worship "to prevent, deter and rapidly respond to serious threats, including active armed offender incidents".
From BBC ● Nov. 1, 2026
He says the Journal defamed him for reporting on a birthday letter with Mr. Trump’s signature sent in 2003 to sexual offender Jeffrey Epstein.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 1, 2026
When study participants were asked to report on their experiences confronting other people, nearly 72% had heard a denial, attack, and reversal of victim and offender.
From Salon ● Oct. 26, 2026
A 37-year-old man and a 41-year-old woman have also been arrested on suspicion of assisting an offender.
From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2026
This week his job was escorting a violent juvenile offender first from Minneapolis to Seattle, then to Ketchikan, Alaska, where they boarded a big silver floatplane to the Tlingit village of Drake.
From "Touching Spirit Bear" by Ben Mikaelsen
The most up to date statistics show that just 12,338 offenders were sent back to jail for breaching their terms between April and June.
From BBC ● Nov. 10, 2026
The guidelines state offenders jailed for four years or more for some serious violent or sexual offences will be released at the two thirds point.
From BBC ● Nov. 9, 2026
"I have concluded that attempting to distinguish among crimes and offenders for clemency would inadvertently create two classes of murder victims -- those whose perpetrators deserve the death penalty and then the rest," Newsom said.
From Barron's ● Nov. 5, 2026
“Attempting to distinguish among crimes and offenders for clemency would inadvertently create two classes of murder victims—those whose perpetrators deserve the death penalty and then the rest,” he said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2026
I had studied Sweden’s progressive approach to the rehabilitation of criminal offenders as a graduate student and had long marveled at how focused on recovery their system appeared.
From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson
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