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offender

[uh-fen-der] / əˈfɛn dər /


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Farage added: "To house a foreign national offender in El Salvador will be half the cost of housing a foreign national offender in this country, and will give us more prison spaces."

From BBC Aug. 10, 2026

A fifth man - Kassam Tarmahoomed, 21 - has been charged with assisting an offender, police said.

From BBC Jul. 27, 2026

Leicestershire Police said two men aged 52 and two women aged 43 who were arrested on suspicion of assisting an offender as part of the investigation were released on bail.

From BBC Jul. 27, 2026

That’s like staying in the dugout during a bench-clearing brawl then offering the offender a handshake.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 23, 2026

Every few minutes you turned to look at them, and if you saw one of them moving the offender had to retire to the back line and begin again.

From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier

Dismissal of the charges follows 51-year-old Vem Miller’s completion of a county program that allows first-time, low-level offenders to have their criminal charges dropped and arrest records sealed after completing a set of requirements.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 14, 2026

"It's also about looking at how we manage our offenders, how we manage and prevent re-offending happening so that we can prevent people becoming victims in the first place."

From BBC Aug. 13, 2026

Prime Minister Andy Burnham has said there will be a presumption that all offenders released as part of the new laws will be tagged and have longer periods of supervision.

From BBC Aug. 12, 2026

All 43 chief constables in England and Wales are urging Burnham to establish an "additional public protection safeguard" in cases involving violent and dangerous offenders.

From BBC Aug. 11, 2026

Another Reagan appointee, Judge Stanley Marshall, told a reporter, “I’ve always been considered a fairly harsh sentencer, but it’s killing me that I’m sending so many low-level offenders away for all this time.”

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander




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