release a prisoner
Frequency: 8.222.4 per million words
To officially allow a prisoner to leave prison.
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Examples (10)
- The court decided to release the prisoner due to lack of evidence.
- Human rights organizations are campaigning to release political prisoners.
- After serving ten years, the authorities will release the prisoner next month.
- The governor has the power to release a prisoner on parole.
- They threatened to release the prisoner if their demands were not met.
- It is a complex legal process to release a prisoner early.
- The judge refused to release the prisoner, citing public safety concerns.
- International pressure mounted to release the wrongly accused prisoner.
- He hopes the new law will allow him to release some prisoners.
- The warden must approve the decision to release a prisoner.