offenders
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Extreme overcrowding, underfunding, corruption and mixing hardened criminals with minor offenders are some reasons Latin American prisons have become crime hubs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 14, 2026
Noboa’s government plans to hand back oversight of the prisons to the country’s penitentiary agency, with new cellphone-signal jammers, increased intelligence and the separation of violent inmates from minor offenders.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 14, 2026
Barnes said the department will cooperate with ICE to the extent the law allows to prevent serious criminal offenders from returning to communities they have preyed on.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 13, 2026
Sara explained she campaigned for the law - which came into effect in 2011 - as she found it unfair that sex offenders could serve their jail time and then be anonymous.
From BBC ● Nov. 8, 2026
Probably some social worker type of person had come up with this program called “O.L.D. Friend” for juvenile offenders.
From "Doing Time Online" by Jan Siebold
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