parole
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"Indeed, our submission is that for this offending the respondent should be sentenced to life without parole," he said.
From Barron's ● Aug. 20, 2026
Crown prosecutors are appealing against a sentence they call "manifestly inadequate" as it allows for the possibility of parole.
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026
He applied for parole three times before his request was approved by the Parole Board in April.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
The maximum sentence for those charges is life in prison without parole.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
There were older, hard-time prisoners close to parole, and their detail was to come and clean the cells and circulate books and magazines for you to read.
From "Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood" by Trevor Noah
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Initially, both sides assumed that the familiar practice of cartels and paroles would be maintained.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 20, 2026
The revocation, she ruled, would have to be on a case-by-case basis, just as their paroles had been granted.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 16, 2025
Like the board of pardons and paroles, Abbott was unmoved.
From Slate ● Oct. 18, 2024
While the governor decides who is granted a pardon, he does not control paroles.
From Washington Times ● Sep. 19, 2022
Enough had reached my ears to convince me that others would be granted paroles in order to tempt them to take the oath, and I did not care to be caught in such company.
From History of Morgan's Cavalry by Basil Wilson Duke
But after serving less than a year of his five-year sentence he was paroled and released due to overcrowding.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 26, 2026
Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said the U.S. government was bound by a Biden-era court settlement to expedite asylum claims of Afghans paroled into the U.S. under Operation Allies Welcome.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 28, 2025
"This is an ongoing sentence from which I can never be paroled."
From Barron's ● Nov. 25, 2025
Both brothers were made eligible for paroled release after they were resentenced by a judge in May.
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2025
“Don’t be so dramatic,” said Vivian, who earlier had told Maya-Jade that she felt as if she’d been paroled from prison.
From "Not Nothing" by Gayle Forman
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South Koreans have been divided over whether Mr. Lee was worth paroling.
From New York Times ● Aug. 9, 2021
“By ICE’s own policy, these are people that shouldn’t be in detention any longer,” Altman said, citing ICE’s process for paroling asylum-seekers until a judge decides their case.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 4, 2021
The HSI agent also wrote out a formal order paroling one of Mr. Sargsyan’s Armenian relatives into the U.S., and got his supervisor to sign off, Mr. Sargsyan says.
From Washington Times ● Apr. 29, 2020
Human-rights advocates say that paroling the perpetrators threatens the entire logic of international criminal law.
From The New Yorker ● Jul. 9, 2018
The 5th corps and one division of cavalry were ordered to remain at Appomattox Court House, until the paroling of the surrendered army was completed and to take charge of the public property.
From Campaign of the Fourteenth Regiment New Jersey Volunteers by J. Newton Terrill
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