If that is the case, the warden announces on the intercom system that the sentence was carried out and witnesses are directed to exit.
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ABC News,
ABC News,
8 Apr. 2026
The sheriff also said the warden had reached out regarding an allegation of an incident under the Prison Rape Elimination Act, but then did not call the department back to further investigate.
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Teri Figueroa,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
26 Mar. 2026
Their Tibetan ancestry dates back thousands of years to when they were bred as an interior sentinel in the Buddhist monasteries.
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Katelyn Chef,
Martha Stewart,
12 Apr. 2026
Precedent for this idea comes from Poland, where many cities already use freshwater mussels as living sentinels of water quality, wired with sensors that register when the animals clamp their shells shut in response to pollutants.
There are 10 others — a bear, dragon, fox, knight, lion, marauder, mustang, red panda, watchman and wolf — that will be narrowed to a final three via a public voting process that ends Friday.
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Mike Danahey,
Chicago Tribune,
14 Apr. 2026
Ideas like reparative journalism and sousveillance — an antonym for surveillance, concerning watching the watchmen in a reversal of power — earn fleeting mentions, but are never the focus of actual inquiry.
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