inmate

Example Sentences

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Los Angeles County leaders are demanding the Sheriff’s Department ramp up safety measures within the jail system as inmate deaths continue to mount.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 3, 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

The newly pardoned inmate was escorted to the captain’s office, where he used the captain’s phone to talk to Smith, his fellow pardon recipient, according to a source familiar with the situation.

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

A few cells down, to my amazement, a young Latino inmate was out on the gallery cutting an older man’s hair with electric clippers.

From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover