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Recent Examples of jailbirdExcuse me, Ayanna’s husband, a jailbird named Conan Harris, bought the mansion, not the Congresswoman.—Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 18 Sep. 2025 Her 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 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
Netanyahu was able to get the first phase of the deal through, including the return of the hostages in Gaza in exchange for the release of Palestinian prisoners and detainees.
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Tal Shalev,
CNN Money,
23 Oct. 2025
In the deal's first phase, Hamas released the last 20 living Israel hostages in exchange for nearly 2,000 Palestinian prisoners.
Fire Country stars Max Thieriot as a former convict who works as a Cal Fire firefighter.
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Allison DeGrushe,
Entertainment Weekly,
17 Oct. 2025
Former convicts include Millie Bobby Brown and Margaret Qualley, who were both gifted the artist’s fluffy pink handcuffs while attending one of her shows.
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