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Recent Examples of jailbirdHer jumpsuit is a couture twist on the cartoonish striped getup of a jailbird.—Jemal Polson, CNN Money, 8 May 2025 Becomes a jailbird at a high-security zoo after he’s caught, with the newest Wallace & Gromit film, Vengeance Most Fowl, finding Feathers, all these years later, hell-bent on getting even with the duo who locked him up.—Devon Ivie, Vulture, 6 Jan. 2025 Plot: Homer acquires Snake’s luxurious hair after the jailbird is sent to the electric chair.—Joshua Kurp, Vulture, 4 Nov. 2024 Twenty years later, an actress named Selma Vaz Dias, who wanted to dramatize Good Morning, Midnight on the radio, found her living in poverty and obscurity in the English countryside with a third husband who also ended an embezzler and a jailbird.—Vivian Gornick, The New Republic, 6 Jan. 2023 The jailbird and guard stayed in touch over the phone, according to Lauderdale County Sheriff Rick Singleton.—Michael Ruiz, Fox News, 11 May 2022
The negotiations resulted in an agreement for a large prisoner swap but not a cease-fire.
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Liubov Sholudko,
New York Times,
20 May 2025
The Vatican has continued to seek to help facilitate the return of Ukrainian children taken by Russia and the Holy See has been able to mediate some prisoner exchanges.
The brothers have founded a long list of prison programs, with Erik starting at least five, including a support group for disabled and elderly inmates.
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Taylor Romine,
CNN Money,
13 May 2025
Other duties include providing leadership, training and support to ensure inmates receive proper dental care.
In the next scene, Henry is in prison, wearing yellow convict duds, and our first thought is: How is this dweeb going to survive there for five minutes?
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Owen Gleiberman,
Variety,
2 May 2025
Could the president pardon anyone Boasberg convicts of criminal contempt?
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John E. Jones III,
The Conversation,
18 Apr. 2025
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Jean Eddy,
Forbes.com,
20 May 2025
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Wilder Davies,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
19 May 2025
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