inmate
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Tennessee Governor Bill Lee has denied a clemency request from death row inmate Christa Pike, who is scheduled to be executed by lethal injection on Wednesday.
From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2026
He was an inmate himself, locked up two hours away at Washington State Prison in Davisboro, Ga.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026
Yiannopoulos, 41, a former editor of Breitbart News and a onetime employee of rapper Kanye West, appears to be held in Louisiana, according to a search of ICE's inmate registry.
From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026
The arrest occurred Aug. 13, according to inmate and court records.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2026
B-block’s plumbing was unbelievably dismal, I thought as I locked an inmate into the second shower.
From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover
The PGD sets operational capacity by judging the total number of inmates a prison can hold and takes into account control and security.
From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026
The paper says the Probation Service does not have capacity to fit monitoring tags before releases begin on 1 October and that released inmates will instead be tagged "once in the community".
From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026
His words about what inmates “earnestly believe,” psychologically, tell us more about the language insiders use to confirm their insider status.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
“Men’s Central Jail is an outdated and decrepit facility that puts both our Sheriff’s deputies and inmates at risk,” Hahn said in a statement.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
The challenges of managing the prison—which was designed to hold twelve hundred inmates but instead had three times that number—were overwhelming.
From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann
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