It is usually found only in older offenders who have a history of violence and sexual offending.

This, coupled with possible cigarette burns, suggests an older offender who smokes.

And thus I had a second escape, for they were convicted, and both hanged, being old offenders, though but young people.

Old Offenders is a 1915 drama film featuring Harry Carey.

It was originally intended to house young offenders, keeping them separate from the hardcore older offenders.

To my astonishment, and to his infinite disgust, he was immediately recognized as an old offender, who had formerly been imprisoned for theft!

Plenty of older offenders, though, knew of Mr. Mason, and several said they were impressed by his presence.

Earlier, when he had been chastising some old offender, he added, "However, he's dead, and I forgive him."

The prisoners were divided into two separate classes; the old offenders into one ward, the young and comparatively innocent into another.

Turning former psychiatric hospitals into geriatric prisons will create both a cost-effective and a more humane environment of long-term custodial care for older offenders.

"These two men are old offenders," he explained to the angry owner; "and they are most persistent violators of the fish and game laws.

The Parole Commission revised the Salient Factor Score by adding an additional item for older offenders.

One informed him that the seventeen year old offender who had caused two hundred and fifty pounds worth of damage to his car had been formerly cautioned.

Three routine cases were disposed of - old offenders apparently so used to the procedure that they anticipated the drill, and Robert half expected someone to say "Wait for it, can't you!"

"But, howsomdever, after a while in comes the Quaker and the officer with him, and the very first minute the officer seen me he says: "'I reckernize him as an old offender.' "

Cathleen Burnett, a University of Missouri sociologist who is editor of a new book, "Older Offenders: Current Trends," published by Haworth Press, says the debate should also address social issues.

But I placed all to the account of my ill fortune, and that under this name I was dealt with as an old offender, though this was the first thing they had ever known of me.

I had the name of an old offender, so that I had nothing to expect but death in a few weeks' time, neither had I myself any thoughts of escaping; and yet a certain strange lethargy of soul possessed me.

The DoH has taken six months to revise the guidelines because of the initial controversy over the draft, followed by the publicity surrounding juvenile crime and new plans from the Home Office to set up 'secure training units' for 12- to 15-year old offenders.

My comrade, having the brand of an old offender, was executed; the young offender was spared, having obtained a reprieve, but lay starving a long while in prison, till at last she got her name into what they call a circuit pardon, and so came off.

- That quoted sentence of a 16 year old offender losing the rest of his adolescence and arguably the best years of his life, but still being allowed a life from his mid-thirties onwards if he gets parole - in my view that sentence is perfectly balanced.

The Springhill Institution has a younger and commensurately more impulsive offender population, whereas Dorchester Penitentiary has specialized in handling Protective Custody offenders in need of treatment and providing psychiatric services to CSC Atlantic Region, therefore having an older offender population.

And when we're sentenced, ain't it him as gets seven year, and me fourteen, and ain't it him as the Judge is sorry for, because he might a done so well, and ain't it me as the Judge perceives to be a old offender of wiolent passion, likely to come to worse?"

In the 1950s and 1960s, many of the same problems that had occurred with the former system of incarcerating juveniles along with adults began to be noticed in reform school - older juveniles exploiting the younger ones, sexually and otherwise, and the younger ones taking the more hardened, usually older offenders as role models and mentors.