parolee

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Recent Examples of parolee Rodriguez and Oropeza both worked at Homeboy Industries, a program that helps gang members and parolees find work, go to school and remove tattoos, among other services. Matthew Ormseth, Los Angeles Times, 29 Jan. 2026 He is helped on the road to recovery by his unlikely friendship with a recent parolee and Vietnam veteran (Vondie Curtis-Hall) and Dr. Elecia Knox (Madsen), a VA trauma therapist-in-training. Jenelle Riley, Variety, 16 Jan. 2026 The parolee and the young woman reunited (with a few others) and started a two-year string of crimes. Ella Gonzales, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 25 Oct. 2025 That has been a central issue in the OTR crime that took the life of gym owner Patrick Heringer, with a parolee who cut off his ankle monitor charged in the crime. Cameron Knight, Cincinnati Enquirer, 9 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for parolee
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Noun
  • Field office staffing crisis To meet its staffing needs, Los Angeles County redeployed even more officers from its field offices to the juvenile halls in March, leaving fewer officers to supervise the tens of thousands of adult and juvenile probationers on community supervision.
    Jason Henry, Daily News, 3 May 2026
  • Similar protections would extend to students, probationers, and recipients of public assistance.
    Alonzo Martinez, Forbes.com, 13 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • The story centers on a unit of nine soldiers – drawn from across the military hierarchy – dispatched to Tsushima Island to bring home Koreans taken prisoner by Japanese pirate groups.
    Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 6 May 2026
  • The poor conditions were also the backdrop for a push in 1980 by the New Progressive Party governor at the time, Carlos Romero Barceló, to codify voting rights for prisoners.
    Raquel Rutledge, ProPublica, 5 May 2026
Noun
  • But the Florida Supreme Court soon after declared that speeding up the execution process was a violation of an inmate's right to due process and equal protection.
    Amanda Lee Myers, USA Today, 29 Apr. 2026
  • Federal law requires inmates to serve 85% of their sentence with good behavior.
    Meredith Colias-Pete, Chicago Tribune, 28 Apr. 2026

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“Parolee.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/parolee. Accessed 12 May. 2026.

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