offender
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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
There are currently 100 artists participating from 37 prisons and young offender institutions across England and Wales and more than 1,500 pieces of art were waiting to be uploaded and sold online.
From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026
They remain in custody, as well as a 38-year-old woman arrested on suspicion of assisting an offender.
From BBC ● Aug. 2, 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
Instead he was just another repeat offender in the middle of the desert, in the middle of nowhere, behind rows of razor wire that glinted and gleamed in the sun like jagged teeth.
From "Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream" by H.G. Bissinger
But he added it was "simply not possible to prevent all offenders from being released early without the prison system collapsing".
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
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
Downing Street had earlier warned it would not be possible to exclude "one or two offenders" convicted of manslaughter from early release.
From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026
Young offenders, these reformers argued, were different from adults.
From "The 57 Bus" by Dashka Slater
