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parole

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


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If the prosecution's appeal is successful, Erin Patterson could see her parole period being extended beyond 33 years.

From BBC Aug. 17, 2026

A judge sentenced her to life imprisonment, eligible for parole after 33 years.

From Barron's Aug. 17, 2026

A judge at the High Court in Edinburgh imposed an order for lifelong restriction and ordered that Docherty must serve a minimum of six years in jail before seeking parole.

From BBC Aug. 17, 2026

The maximum sentence for those charges is life in prison without parole.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 13, 2026

One in 9 black men between the ages of twenty and thirty-five was behind bars in 2006, and far more were under some form of penal control—such as probation or parole.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander

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

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

From Seattle Times Oct. 25, 2023

Men have broken paroles, but when they do they no longer are esteemed by honorably minded men.

From Peggy Owen and Liberty by Lucy Foster Madison

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

Her attorneys noted that DHS determined she was not a flight risk when she was paroled into the country and that her detention was unjustified.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 26, 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

“By ICE’s own policy, these are people that shouldn’t be in detention any longer,” Altman said, citing ICE’s process for paroling asylum-seekers until a judge decides their case.

From Seattle Times Aug. 4, 2021

The Baltimore Sun on the involvement of the governor of Maryland in paroling three juveniles who were given life sentences:

From Washington Times Nov. 27, 2019

“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

On the same day the Raleigh and Baltimore secured the surrender of the batteries on Corregidor Island, paroling the garrison and destroying the guns.

From The Boys of '98 by James Otis




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