inmate

Example Sentences

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The doctor, later identified by Vice as Alfredo Balli Treviño, was not an employee, but an inmate.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 2, 2026

Although the Prison Service did not confirm the identity of the injured prisoner, it confirmed an inmate at HMP Frankland in County Durham is receiving treatment.

From BBC • Feb. 26, 2026

Because most inmate releases are done during the daytime, prison staff had to be called back in to handle the paperwork and logistics of freeing an inmate.

From Salon • Feb. 19, 2026

In Mansfield: “The Shawshank Redemption” was filmed at the Ohio State Reformatory, where Tim Robbins’s character tells the inmate played by Morgan Freeman: “Get busy living or get busy dying.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 16, 2026

To an inmate with the extra juice, I began to say, “Drink it here.”

From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover