inmate
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In 2011 Dobbie brought a judicial review at the Court of Session in Edinburgh against a plan to ban junk food to combat inmate obesity at Carstairs.
From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2026
“The inmate Carroll impregnated is not one of the two victims in this case,” Assistant District Attorney Eric DuTemple said in an email this week.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
The county jail’s inmate tracker has not been updated and does not indicate if he has posted bond or been released.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 29, 2026
Panama is preparing to announce changes to its prison system in July following inmate escapes, while Honduras plans to purchase drones from Ukraine for its anti-drug efforts.
From Barron's ● Jun. 24, 2026
No sleep was there: the inmate was walking restlessly from wall to wall; and again and again he sighed while I listened.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
Nasarenko said he was the beneficiary of a 2018 law that grants prison inmates who had served 25 years continuously and were over 60 years old an opportunity to seek elder parole.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
For example, a programme in which prisoners could read bedtime stories to children, as well as a rehabilitation scheme involving a TV channel run by inmates.
From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2026
In January, the Justice Department announced the conviction of two Georgia inmates who ran scams on stolen cellphones from behind bars.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 9, 2026
The prison - which has a maximum capacity for about 900 inmates - came under the control of another outsourcing firm Sodexo on 16 February 2023.
From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2026
It wasn’t hard to imagine the hopelessness the inmates felt.
From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French
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