parole
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Yet her insanity defense failed and she was sentenced to three consecutive terms of life without parole.
From Salon ● Sep. 2, 2026
Peters is not supposed to leave Colorado without permission from her parole officer, although she did visit Trump at the White House.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2026
If they don't get parole, they are freed automatically when they have six months left to serve.
From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2026
The nurse faces life in prison without the possibility of parole if found guilty.
From Barron's ● Aug. 28, 2026
Antonio Nuñez's judge in Orange County, California, replaced his sentence of life imprisonment without parole with a sentence of 175 years.
From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson
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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
Like the board of pardons and paroles, Abbott was unmoved.
From Slate ● Oct. 18, 2024
CBP officials said they considered the paroles completed before the order, even though the releases were not.
From Washington Times ● May 17, 2023
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
But pardons and paroles are signed by the Emperor.
From The Unnecessary Man by Martinez
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
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
“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
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
Human-rights advocates say that paroling the perpetrators threatens the entire logic of international criminal law.
From The New Yorker ● Jul. 9, 2018
But Johnson has said that the Michigan Parole Board has never expressed interest in paroling him.
From Seattle Times ● May 31, 2018
Finding nothing in his way, he entered the place, the rebels having retreated immediately after paroling the sick and wounded, which the Captain found in as good condition as circumstances would admit.
From History of the Seventh Ohio Volunteer Cavalry by R. C. Rankin
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