parole
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The maximum sentence for those charges is life in prison without parole.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
"New prisons outrage" is the Sun's headline, writing that "jet bomb plotters" could be "free in weeks" after launching parole bids.
From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026
Davis, 63, faces life in prison without parole if convicted.
From Barron's ● Aug. 10, 2026
The paper quotes the parole board's response: "Reviews are undertaken thoroughly and with extreme care. Protecting the public is our number one priority."
From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026
This prediction proved correct, for not long afterward Wells collected both the reward and a parole.
From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote
Initially, both sides assumed that the familiar practice of cartels and paroles would be maintained.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 20, 2026
The revocation, she ruled, would have to be on a case-by-case basis, just as their paroles had been granted.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 16, 2025
Like the board of pardons and paroles, Abbott was unmoved.
From Slate ● Oct. 18, 2024
For those sentenced to life, discretionary paroles are available only to those who committed their crime before Dec. 31, 1999, — before Wisconsin’s truth-in-sentencing law took effect and ended the possibility of parole.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 21, 2022
They are chansons sans paroles, sung to the syrinx in Sicilian glades.
From Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets by Marsden Hartley
But after serving less than a year of his five-year sentence he was paroled and released due to overcrowding.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 26, 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
In the Milan, Michigan, federal prison, Mr. Muhammad served three and a half years, then he was paroled.
From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey
South Koreans have been divided over whether Mr. Lee was worth paroling.
From New York Times ● Aug. 9, 2021
Advocates and community members have long agreed that D.C. needs a new paroling authority.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 19, 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
No use paroling 'em, as they consider us guerillas.
From My Lady of Doubt by Alonzo Kimball
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