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parole

[puh-rohl] / pəˈroʊl /
VERB
discharge
Synonyms
Antonyms
STRONG


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But after a five-month trial and a deadlocked jury, Norris was convicted by a majority of 11-1 and told he would not be eligible for parole for 30 years.

From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026

But then on Thursday, a felony arrest warrant was filed for Shrine for alleged violation of post-release community supervision, a type of supervised release similar to parole, in Contra Costa County.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2026

Bechi would have been eligible for parole around March 2027, or would have been released at the end of his sentence in 2029.

From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2026

He will be eligible for parole if he can reach the age of 99.

From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026

Over two thousand condemned people sentenced to life imprisonment without parole for crimes when they were children were now potentially eligible for relief and reduced sentences.

From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson

Initially, both sides assumed that the familiar practice of cartels and paroles would be maintained.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 20, 2026

“These paroles have since been terminated with immediate effect,” the agency announced on X. Again, it was unclear specifically who this applied to and if these individuals were notified.

From Slate ● Apr. 16, 2025

The paroles board on Tuesday voted 7-0 against commuting Speer’s death sentence to a lesser penalty.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 25, 2023

Huynh said the recidivism rates for the people who go through Defy Ventures’ Entrepreneurs in Training program is far lower than the average, but some do reoffend or violate their paroles.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 2, 2023

It was his duty to record the paroles and countersigns, the various orders for the next day, and to see that they were attended to.

From Ben Comee A Tale of Rogers's Rangers, 1758-59 by M. J. (Michael Joseph) Canavan

One of them was sentenced to life with the possibility of parole, and the other was paroled after cooperating with investigators.

From Slate ● Aug. 25, 2026

Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said the U.S. government was bound by a Biden-era court settlement to expedite asylum claims of Afghans paroled into the U.S. under Operation Allies Welcome.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 28, 2025

"This is an ongoing sentence from which I can never be paroled."

From Barron's ● Nov. 25, 2025

He was paroled from California City, when it was a private prison, for a crime that he didn’t want to talk about because his case is still proceeding through immigration courts.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2025

That stupid guy had been paroled briefly to serve as director at Camp Half-Blood.

From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan

Before I got to fire camp, my earliest possible release date was November 2013, yet I ended up paroling in February 2012.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 15, 2021

South Koreans have been divided over whether Mr. Lee was worth paroling.

From New York Times ● Aug. 9, 2021

The HSI agent also wrote out a formal order paroling one of Mr. Sargsyan’s Armenian relatives into the U.S., and got his supervisor to sign off, Mr. Sargsyan says.

From Washington Times ● Apr. 29, 2020

“State paroling systems vary so much that it is almost impossible to compare them,” Jorge Renaud, an analyst at the Prison Policy Initiative, a think tank, wrote in a report earlier this year.

From The New Yorker ● Nov. 25, 2019

Sensitive to such stinging thrusts and no friend of wanton persecution, Lincoln attempted to mitigate the rigors of the law by paroling many political prisoners.

From History of the United States by Charles A. (Charles Austin) Beard




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