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offender

[uh-fen-der] / əˈfɛn dər /


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He says the Journal defamed him for reporting on a birthday letter with Mr. Trump’s signature sent in 2003 to sexual offender Jeffrey Epstein.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 1, 2026

When study participants were asked to report on their experiences confronting other people, nearly 72% had heard a denial, attack, and reversal of victim and offender.

From Salon ● Oct. 26, 2026

Several other people have been arrested in connection with the incident, including two men, aged 24 and 30, and two women, aged 25 and 21, who have been arrested on suspicion of assisting an offender.

From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026

Last week, the Bulwark reported that one of his campaign ads featured Ramaswamy meeting with a registered sex offender.

From Slate ● Oct. 20, 2026

Any municipal jail, he figured, expects many of their prisoners to leave within a day or two, through bonds or dropped charges or any number of outcomes for the small-time offender.

From "Zeitoun" by Dave Eggers

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

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

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

Around 650 more offenders will leave jails in England and Wales on Tuesday in the third phase of the government's plan to end the prison population crisis.

From BBC ● Nov. 10, 2026

Hundreds of thousands of nonviolent offenders have been forced to spend decades in prison.

From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson


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