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Recent Examples of inmate
Eight of the 10 inmates who escaped from the Orleans Parish jail through a hole behind a toilet on May 16 have been captured.
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Rebecca Morin, USA Today, 4 June 2025
The official said he was not authorized to publicly discuss the ongoing investigation into the May 16 escape by 10 inmates.
—Arkansas Online, 4 June 2025
All but one of those Santa Clara County death row inmates saw their execution orders wiped from the books.
—Jakob Rodgers, Mercury News, 4 June 2025
What about the deaths of 21 jail inmates over four years that prompted the NAACP to demand a federal civil rights investigation?
—Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 3 June 2025
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Rebecca Morin, USA Today, 4 June 2025
The official said he was not authorized to publicly discuss the ongoing investigation into the May 16 escape by 10 inmates.
—Arkansas Online, 4 June 2025
All but one of those Santa Clara County death row inmates saw their execution orders wiped from the books.
—Jakob Rodgers, Mercury News, 4 June 2025
What about the deaths of 21 jail inmates over four years that prompted the NAACP to demand a federal civil rights investigation?
—Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 3 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for inmate
prisoner
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The flintlock pistol that Torres is given by the Yautja to fight his fellow prisoners is known by Predator fans as the Raphael Adolini 1715 pistol for an engraved plate that says just that.—
Louis Peitzman,
Vulture,
13 June 2025
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This is not a story that labors to earn its prisoners their humanity.—
David Ehrlich,
IndieWire,
11 June 2025
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“Inmate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inmate. Accessed 19 Jun. 2025.
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