How to Use parolee in a Sentence

parolee

noun
  • Ackles — a parolee and felon barred from having a gun — fled.
    Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Apr. 2023
  • Ernest was a parolee at large with a warrant out for his arrest.
    Alejandro Serrano, SFChronicle.com, 28 Aug. 2019
  • He was granted 12-hour passes to walk around the city with other parolees.
    Washington Post, 1 Aug. 2017
  • The parole rate dropped sharply after a parolee was charged with killing two women and a child in Guntersville in 2018.
    Mike Cason | McAson@al.com, al, 14 July 2021
  • Parolees arrive at Hawkes Home with little more than the clothes on their back and $200 in spending money from the state.
    Pam Kragen, sandiegouniontribune.com, 7 June 2017
  • One, a parolee, was arrested on auto theft and gun charges.
    Christine Dempsey, courant.com, 10 Sep. 2020
  • Billy is a parolee who hasn't followed up on a chance to play college football.
    Julie Hinds, Detroit Free Press, 12 Sep. 2021
  • In most instances, parolees can’t be returned to state prison now, but instead are held in county jails for up to 180 days.
    Anita Chabria, sacbee, 12 Sep. 2017
  • Cowell, a parolee, had been released from prison about four months prior to the incident.
    Jewel Wicker, Teen Vogue, 25 July 2018
  • Police said the man, believed to be 36 or 37, was being sought on a warrant for evading and also was a parolee.
    Karen Kucher, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Mar. 2021
  • The future of the 1,500 youth with parolee status who have already arrived in the U.S. is also uncertain.
    Rachel Anspach, Slate Magazine, 9 Oct. 2017
  • The rules forbid parolees from possessing guns and drugs in almost all cases.
    Paul Vercammen, CNN, 29 Sep. 2017
  • Officers were sent to search a house and property for parolee-at-large Ronnie O’Dell.
    Robert Barnes, Washington Post, 30 May 2017
  • Instead, senators will try to put a pay raise in the state budget without making parolees pay for it.
    Julia O'Donoghue, NOLA.com, 1 June 2017
  • King, a 26-year-old robbery parolee, suffered facial fractures and a broken leg in the beating.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 May 2022
  • The suspect was a parolee who had absconded from San Luis Obispo, Barclay said.
    Alex Wigglesworth, Los Angeles Times, 9 Apr. 2022
  • Her killer, 34-year-old Alexander Bonds, was a lowlife and prison parolee with untreated mental illness.
    Peggy Noonan, WSJ, 13 July 2017
  • Before prison downsizing, parolees who violated the terms of their release could be sent back to prison for up to a year.
    Richard Winton, latimes.com, 10 May 2018
  • In New York, parole officers will often make unscheduled visits to the home to see that a parolee is there by 9 at night.
    Ginia Bellafante, New York Times, 2 Feb. 2018
  • That new policy did not apply to prison parolees who were released from the state hospital.
    Calmatters, The Mercury News, 12 Mar. 2024
  • His action brings New York in line with 18 other states and the District, which allow parolees to vote, according to his office.
    John Wagner, Washington Post, 18 Apr. 2018
  • The prisoner is deemed no longer to pose a threat to the community, but that assumption can change if the parolee violates the terms of parole.
    Michael McCann, SI.com, 20 July 2017
  • Advocates say about one third of these parolees and probationers are black.
    Melissa Chan, Time, 27 Apr. 2018
  • In Lancaster, another parolee was charged in the fatal stabbing of his sister and niece.
    NBC News, 25 July 2019
  • John Cowell, a 27-year-old parolee, has been charged with murder and attempted murder in the July 22 stabbings.
    Fox News, 3 Aug. 2018
  • The lower chamber passed House Bill 302 that would have made parolees pay a much higher monthly fee to fund salary bumps for their supervisors.
    Julia O'Donoghue, NOLA.com, 3 June 2017
  • A parolee from Aurora denied murder charges against him in connection to a June shooting, which left a 34-year-old man dead on Grove Street.
    Dan Campana, Aurora Beacon-News, 18 Aug. 2017
  • The arrests come on the heels of the state overhauling the parole system, helping lower the state's prison population and ballooning the ranks of parolees.
    NBC News, 25 July 2019
  • The story follows the transitioning world of Percy, a recent parolee who arrives to a small town in Wisconsin to start her new life.
    Philip Potempa, chicagotribune.com, 4 Apr. 2018
  • Median turnaround times for work permits for asylum seekers and parolees are now under a month.
    Lydia Depillis, New York Times, 29 Feb. 2024

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