offender
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Farage added: "To house a foreign national offender in El Salvador will be half the cost of housing a foreign national offender in this country, and will give us more prison spaces."
From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026
There are currently 100 artists participating from 37 prisons and young offender institutions across England and Wales and more than 1,500 pieces of art were waiting to be uploaded and sold online.
From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026
They remain in custody, as well as a 38-year-old woman arrested on suspicion of assisting an offender.
From BBC ● Aug. 2, 2026
That’s like staying in the dugout during a bench-clearing brawl then offering the offender a handshake.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026
Instead of a faceless state or community, crime victims were featured at trial, and criminal cases took on the dynamics of a traditional civil trial, pitting the family of the victim against the offender.
From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson
Downing Street had earlier warned it would not be possible to exclude "one or two offenders" convicted of manslaughter from early release.
From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026
He said the plan would be based on removing more foreign national offenders from prisons, releasing some offenders on indefinite sentences, and using space in women's jails for male inmates.
From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026
The prime minister is "increasingly confident" he can find prison spaces for some high-profile offenders, says The Independent.
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026
The release point for these prisoners will move from 40% or half of their custodial term to one third for some offenders, and from two thirds to half for others.
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026
The judge, W. Dennis Duggan, had long taken note of the strange names borne by some offenders.
From "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" by Steven D. Levitt
