lawbreakers

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King County describes the diversions program as a way of “bypassing prosecution and jail time” and instead connecting lawbreakers with case managers, housing and other taxpayer-funded support.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 12, 2026

As Gov. Newsom said, if there are lawbreakers, let them be prosecuted.

From Salon • Jun. 12, 2025

Following years of overexploitation in the Amazon rainforest -- due mainly to illegal logging -- the government began to take tough countermeasures, introducing satellite surveillance and deploying the military to tackle lawbreakers.

From Science Daily • Dec. 21, 2023

Five times that day, McGonigle and two of her fellow judges repeated that ritual, offering personal salutes to accused lawbreakers who had chosen to go through treatment for their mental illness rather than face prosecution.

From Los Angeles Times • May 26, 2023

The four lawbreakers were quickly out of the house in full chase.

From The Young Railroaders Tales of Adventure and Ingenuity by Coombs, Francis Lovell