parole

In 2023, Leslie Van Houten was granted parole and released after holding what many described as an exemplary record for decades behind bars.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026

Her lawyers repeated a call for Tennessee Governor Bill Lee to commute Pike's sentence to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole.

From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2026

Newsom had denied a previous decision granting parole to Van Houten but was overruled by an appellate court.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026

The scheme does not apply to indeterminate sentences, which are handed out for the most serious offences like murder, and require a parole board to deem a prisoner safe to be released.

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026

In almost every state, juries made the decision to impose the death penalty or life in prison without parole.

From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson

Initially, both sides assumed that the familiar practice of cartels and paroles would be maintained.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 20, 2026

Like the board of pardons and paroles, Abbott was unmoved.

From Slate ● Oct. 18, 2024

Huynh said the recidivism rates for the people who go through Defy Ventures’ Entrepreneurs in Training program is far lower than the average, but some do reoffend or violate their paroles.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 2, 2023

Discretionary paroles are available only to offenders not sentenced to life in prison who committed a felony before Dec. 31, 1999.

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

One of them was sentenced to life with the possibility of parole, and the other was paroled after cooperating with investigators.

From Slate ● Aug. 25, 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

If they are paroled, the brothers will be released likely within five months, according to the California Department of Corrections.

From BBC ● May 17, 2025

That stupid guy had been paroled briefly to serve as director at Camp Half-Blood.

From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan

South Koreans have been divided over whether Mr. Lee was worth paroling.

From New York Times ● Aug. 9, 2021

Advocates and community members have long agreed that D.C. needs a new paroling authority.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 19, 2021

The Baltimore Sun on the involvement of the governor of Maryland in paroling three juveniles who were given life sentences:

From Washington Times ● Nov. 27, 2019

“State paroling systems vary so much that it is almost impossible to compare them,” Jorge Renaud, an analyst at the Prison Policy Initiative, a think tank, wrote in a report earlier this year.

From The New Yorker ● Nov. 25, 2019

Sensitive to such stinging thrusts and no friend of wanton persecution, Lincoln attempted to mitigate the rigors of the law by paroling many political prisoners.

From History of the United States by Charles A. (Charles Austin) Beard