How to Use parolee in a Sentence

parolee

noun
  • Ernest was a parolee at large with a warrant out for his arrest.
    — Alejandro Serrano, SFChronicle.com, 28 Aug. 2019
  • Ackles — a parolee and felon barred from having a gun — fled.
    — Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Apr. 2023
  • Billy is a parolee who hasn't followed up on a chance to play college football.
    — Julie Hinds, Detroit Free Press, 12 Sep. 2021
  • Once that pool was depleted, the number of parolees began to drop.
    — Richard A. Webster, ProPublica, 27 Jan. 2026
  • He was granted 12-hour passes to walk around the city with other parolees.
    — Washington Post, 1 Aug. 2017
  • The rules forbid parolees from possessing guns and drugs in almost all cases.
    — Paul Vercammen, CNN, 29 Sep. 2017
  • Cowell, a parolee, had been released from prison about four months prior to the incident.
    — Jewel Wicker, Teen Vogue, 25 July 2018
  • 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 new policy did not apply to prison parolees who were released from the state hospital.
    — Calmatters, The Mercury News, 12 Mar. 2024
  • 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
  • The million or so parolees who entered the country during the Biden years seem a likely place to start.
    — Jonathan Blitzer, The New Yorker, 5 Dec. 2024
  • Will caught up to an armed parolee in the hall of an apartment complex, and was forced to fire his weapon after the convict took a shot at him.
    — Ryan Schwartz, TVLine, 25 Mar. 2025
  • And too many parolees were sent back to prison for violating technical rules of parole, the report said.
    — Graham Rayman, New York Daily News, 31 Jan. 2025
  • 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 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
  • The parolees who were less than 18 years old were eligible for food stamps and Medicaid health care.
    — Bart Jansen, USA TODAY, 22 Mar. 2025
  • King, a 26-year-old robbery parolee, suffered facial fractures and a broken leg in the beating.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 May 2022
  • In Lancaster, another parolee was charged in the fatal stabbing of his sister and niece.
    — NBC News, 25 July 2019
  • The parole rate dropped sharply after a parolee was charged with killing two women and a child in Guntersville in 2018.
    — Mike Cason | [email protected], al, 14 July 2021
  • Officers were sent to search a house and property for parolee-at-large Ronnie O’Dell.
    — Robert Barnes, Washington Post, 30 May 2017
  • 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 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
  • 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
  • Her killer, 34-year-old Alexander Bonds, was a lowlife and prison parolee with untreated mental illness.
    — Peggy Noonan, WSJ, 13 July 2017
  • The suspect was a parolee who had absconded from San Luis Obispo, Barclay said.
    — Alex Wigglesworth, Los Angeles Times, 9 Apr. 2022
  • 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
  • The officers stopped McDaniel after a 19-year-old woman came forward, claiming that the parolee had groped her.
    — Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 15 June 2024
  • 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 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
  • 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

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