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inmate

[in-mayt] / ˈɪnˌmeɪt /
NOUN
patient
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Russell Brand will face "hell on earth" inside HMP Wandsworth, a former inmate at the London prison has said.

From BBC ● Nov. 13, 2026

As of Monday morning, McWhite was being held on $150,000 bond at the Van Nuys Regional Jail, according to online inmate records.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 9, 2026

Tennessee inmate Christa Pike said she is still in pain and struggling to understand what happened after she survived a botched execution one month ago.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

US death row inmate Christa Pike has released her first public statement since her botched execution in September.

From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026

There were ninety-nine guidelines, all of which we had to memorize, governing the minutiae of inmate life.

From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover

A member of staff at Wandsworth said there was "much excitement" among the inmates about Brand's arrival.

From BBC ● Nov. 13, 2026

Another nine groups are expected to leave prison in the next seven months, with inmates who received longer sentences included in the later cohorts.

From BBC ● Nov. 13, 2026

Under the state constitution, she cannot end the death penalty with the stroke of a pen or declare a moratorium on executions or grant clemency to death row inmates on her own.

From Slate ● Nov. 11, 2026

Only 13 inmates have been killed since voters reinstated the death penalty in 1978.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2026

Then, every day, two different officers would count the class, as if we were inmates, and present the completed count slip, along with a fire and safety report, to Sergeant Bloom.

From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover


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