Noun The prisoner will be eligible for parole after three years. She robbed a bank while out on parole. The prisoner was released on parole.
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Noun
Now, some Michigan inmates sentenced to life as juveniles are getting the chance to be considered for parole, but some experts bemoan the slow pace of resentencing. Jennifer Brookland, Detroit Free Press, 13 Sep. 2022 Now 73, her request for parole was rejected in 2022. Elaine Aradillas, Peoplemag, 8 Sep. 2022 She was sentenced to 54 years in prison and is not eligible for parole until 2060, according to the Ohio Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. Cameron Knight, The Enquirer, 3 Sep. 2022 In less than four years, Shoemaker becomes eligible for parole.al, 1 Sep. 2022 The US First Circuit Court of Appeals vacated the 2021 ruling that reduced Trenkler’s sentence from life to 41 years, which would have made the 66-year-old eligible for parole in 2028. Shelley Murphy, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Aug. 2022 Defendants who are sentenced to life in prison in Delaware are not eligible for parole. Isabel Hughes, USA TODAY, 11 Aug. 2022 Kristie Evans will be eligible for parole in 2060, after serving most of 45 years, Miskel said. Tim Stelloh, NBC News, 10 Aug. 2022 Schlachet conceded that jurors could find her guilty of felony murder, a charge that carried a life sentence but allowed McLoyd to become eligible for parole after serving 15 years behind bars. Cory Shaffer, cleveland, 3 Aug. 2022
Verb
In the state system alone, Chauvin could have become entitled to parole after about 15 years. Steve Karnowski, ajc, 7 July 2022 Ward said the goal is to help parole violators with the underlying causes that can lead to new crimes and a return to prison, such as substance abuse and mental health problems. Mike Cason | Mcason@al.com, al, 9 Feb. 2022 The first to be rejected was Jeffrey Mears, who voted to parole Paula Sims, a woman convicted in 1990 of killing her two daughters, and Zelma King, who was convicted of three homicides. Jeremy Gorner, chicagotribune.com, 7 Apr. 2022 Parole commissioners say Frederick Woods, 70, no longer is a danger to the public; previous panels had denied him parole 17 times.Los Angeles Times, 31 Mar. 2022 Tony Lambert sits on a hotel room bed poring over YouTube videos of tiny home renderings, an ankle monitor under his sweatpants pinging his location to parole and probation officers.The Salt Lake Tribune, 21 Mar. 2022 Here are other changes proposed in the bill: Changes to parole and probation conditions, such as aligning supervision conditions with state, not federal, drug laws.oregonlive, 9 Feb. 2022 Newsom on Thursday refused to parole the man convicted of gunning down Robert F. Kennedy in Los Angeles, a brazen assassination of a presidential candidate that scarred the nation and altered the course of American politics in the 1960s.Los Angeles Times, 15 Jan. 2022 Kennedy’s wife, Ethel Kennedy, publicly declared her opposition to parole in September, and she was joined by six of her nine surviving children.Washington Post, 13 Jan. 2022 See More
Word History
Etymology
Noun
borrowed from French, "speech, expression in words, word, promise," going back to Old French, going back to Gallo-Romance *paraula, going back to Late Latin parabola "comparison, allegory, proverb, discourse, speech"; (sense 4) after the use of parole in this sense by Ferdinand de saussure in Cours de linguistique générale (1916) — more at parable