convict
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“I owe it to my son. ... Convict me. ... Send me on my way.”
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 22, 2025
In August 2019, during Kefas’ detention at the Kaduna Convict Prison, Kefas’ mother paid him a visit and pleaded with him to forgo his activism.
From Slate • Dec. 28, 2021
“It is now time for the defendant, Robert Kelly, to pay for his crimes. Convict him.”
From Seattle Times • Sep. 23, 2021
Convict leasing lasted into the 1920s when Southern states chose to employ their convicts directly in chain gangs to build the region’s railroads and highways.
From Salon • Dec. 7, 2019
Convict number 4,565, aged thirty-eight years . . . and in good health, was showered with three pails of cold water.
From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover
Vocabulary lists containing convict
13th Amendment (1865)
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"To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee, Chapters 20–25
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Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
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