inmate

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According to department data, half of the 46 inmate deaths recorded in 2025 were listed as natural.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 19, 2026

Ortiz was arraigned on Tuesday and is being held in a Los Angeles jail on bail of over $1.8 million, according to county inmate records and prosecutors.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 11, 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

The men’s locker room—I’ve never seen the women’s—is itself nearly abandoned; though it’s stuffed with a hodgepodge of some two hundred lockers of inmate manufacture, fewer than twenty are actively used.

From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover