parole
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But the family entered the country under humanitarian parole, which allows them to remain for one year, the people said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026
At the time of the incident, Fairchild was incarcerated after being arrested Sept. 12, 2024, for violating his parole on a 2022 criminal threat conviction.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026
That review found "errors" resulting in Bechi's parole being revoked.
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026
They are also calling on the state governor, Bill Lee, to downgrade Pike's punishment to the lesser sentence of life in prison without parole.
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026
Under California law, a juvenile has to be at least sixteen to be sentenced to life imprisonment without parole for murder.
From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson
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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
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
Discretionary paroles are available only to offenders not sentenced to life in prison who committed a felony before Dec. 31, 1999.
From Washington Times ● Sep. 19, 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
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
Her grandpa, a friendly old man who was paroled decades ago, reached out to greet me, his whole body shaking from Parkinson’s.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 15, 2025
“Don’t be so dramatic,” said Vivian, who earlier had told Maya-Jade that she felt as if she’d been paroled from prison.
From "Not Nothing" by Gayle Forman
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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 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
Human-rights advocates say that paroling the perpetrators threatens the entire logic of international criminal law.
From The New Yorker ● Jul. 9, 2018
Lawrence spent two days in the valley of the La Belle, paroling his prisoners, and loading up their wagons with provisions and forage enough to last to Rolla.
From The Courier of the Ozarks by Byron A. (Byron Archibald) Dunn
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