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The district attorney's office argued that while prosecutors can recognise inmates have rehabilitated while behind bars, the act of resentencing someone should be used with care.

From BBC • Apr. 11, 2025

Judge Joseph P. Whyte wrote in an order Wednesday that the purpose of an expungement is to give people who have rehabilitated themselves a second chance, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 6, 2024

Advocates also worried that people who have rehabilitated their loans in the past and re-defaulted would be shut out because the program is supposed to be a one-time offer.

From Washington Post • Aug. 17, 2022

Some of those youths, like Dar, are militants whom the state claimed to have rehabilitated under a program begun after the last round of major unrest, in 2010.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 31, 2016

The popular and rustic strains which are handed down from the reign of Henry III have rehabilitated the memory of Simon de Montfort.

From An Anthology of Jugoslav Poetry; Serbian Lyrics by Various