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offender

[uh-fen-der] / əˈfɛn dər /


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Gloucestershire Police also said that a woman who had previously been arrested on suspicion of assisting an offender had been released on police bail.

From BBC ● Nov. 7, 2026

The offender wasn’t an outsider managing his money.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 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

Comey has worked on cases against the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, his accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell, and hip-hop mogul Sean "Diddy" Combs, who was convicted on prostitution-related charges involving his two ex-girlfriends last year.

From BBC ● Oct. 26, 2026

Officer Delinko still dreamed of catching the offender and bringing him to justice.

From "Hoot" by Carl Hiaasen

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

At least 1,350 offenders have left jail early since 1 October under the first two waves of the scheme.

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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