offender
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The offender wasn’t an outsider managing his money.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026
George was told "you are plainly the most responsible offender", while Ionela was told she was "a senior trusted manager rather than a person who exercised total control".
From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026
Comey has worked on cases against the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, his accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell, and hip-hop mogul Sean "Diddy" Combs, who was convicted on prostitution-related charges involving his two ex-girlfriends last year.
From BBC ● Oct. 26, 2026
When study participants were asked to report on their experiences confronting other people, nearly 72% had heard a denial, attack, and reversal of victim and offender.
From Salon ● Oct. 26, 2026
Any municipal jail, he figured, expects many of their prisoners to leave within a day or two, through bonds or dropped charges or any number of outcomes for the small-time offender.
From "Zeitoun" by Dave Eggers
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Extreme overcrowding, underfunding, corruption and mixing hardened criminals with minor offenders are some reasons Latin American prisons have become crime hubs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 14, 2026
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
On Monday the latest release of weekly data showed there were 86,982 people in jail, with enough spare spaces to take in 2,076 additional offenders if needs be.
From BBC ● Nov. 10, 2026
Probably some social worker type of person had come up with this program called “O.L.D. Friend” for juvenile offenders.
From "Doing Time Online" by Jan Siebold
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