criminal record

Example Sentences

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Strong families and strong schools shape habits and values more effectively than the threat of a criminal record ever will.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 14, 2026

The vast majority of those detained for deportation, including those who have died, had no criminal record.

From Salon • Mar. 25, 2026

Those applying must prove they have spent at least five months in the country and not have a criminal record.

From BBC • Mar. 8, 2026

The government arrested this individual, Rigoberto Soto Jimenez, at his workplace in January—even though he had lived here since 2018 and has no criminal record or a final order of removal authorizing his deportation.

From Slate • Feb. 19, 2026

Fully 70 percent of men between the ages of eighteen and forty-five in the impoverished and overwhelmingly black North Lawndale neighborhood on Chicago’s West Side are saddled for life with a criminal record.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander