offenders
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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
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
Napo, the probation service union, has previously said the releases have put enormous strain on its members who are charged with monitoring the offenders in the community.
From BBC ● Nov. 10, 2026
“Attempting to distinguish among crimes and offenders for clemency would inadvertently create two classes of murder victims—those whose perpetrators deserve the death penalty and then the rest,” he said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2026
Yet the majority of hate-crime offenders don’t fit the stereotype of the squinting, bristle-headed loner with a swastika tattoo or a Confederate flag T-shirt.
From "The 57 Bus" by Dashka Slater
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