inmate

noun

in·mate | \ ˈin-ˌmāt

Definition of inmate

: any of a group occupying a single place of residence especially : a person confined (as in a prison or hospital)

Examples of inmate in a Sentence

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Muslims make up about 6 percent of the total Belgian population but account for more than a third of its prison inmates. — Washington Post, "Facing discrimination, tempted by violence," 12 July 2019 One demand—that a Board of Correction task force assessing the quality of life of TGNCNB inmates be established—was met the day it was issued. — Mankaprr Conteh, Vogue, "How Layleen Cubilette-Polanco’s Family, the House of Xtravaganza, and Activists Are Mourning and Organizing a Month After Her Death," 12 July 2019 Why close the jail rather than just reduce the number of inmates? — Courtney Astolfi, cleveland.com, "Cuyahoga County to close Euclid Jail after mistakenly exceeding facility’s capacity for years," 11 July 2019 The Harford County Detention Center, located on Rock Spring Road north of downtown Bel Air, has an average daily population of about 400 inmates. — Erika Butler, baltimoresun.com, "Harford sheriff announces THRIVE initiative to help reduce number of inmates returning to jail," 11 July 2019 Bottoms signed legislation in May to close and repurpose the jail, citing a declining number of inmates and increased operating costs. — Harmeet Kaur, CNN, "T.I. has been tapped for a task force that will reimagine an Atlanta city jail," 4 July 2019 The visually arresting sci-fi drama stars Binoche as a scientist and Robert Pattinson as part of a crew of death row inmates exiled into deep space on a mission to extract energy from a black hole. — Loren King, BostonGlobe.com, "Scene Here: Vive the MFA’s Boston French Film Festival!," 3 July 2019 Innocence Projects around the country have won exoneration of inmates convicted on the basis of bite marks, a strain of forensic analysis that has been largely discredited. — Bruce Vielmetti, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, "Man exonerated after 23 years in prison says detectives, dentists framed him with bogus bite-mark evidence," 24 June 2019 Yet despite the fact that over half of prison inmates were convicted of a violent crime, most criminal justice reforms exclude those with violent pasts. — David J. Harding, Scientific American, "Do Prisons Make Us Safer?," 21 June 2019

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