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In Brown County, only one in five county jail inmates is serving a sentence.
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Margaret Shreiner, jsonline.com, 10 Sep. 2025
Winners include a non-fiction work about Taiwan’s only female death row inmate that took top honors at Taipei International Book Exhibition and earned Frankfurt Book Fair selection.
—Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 10 Sep. 2025
The clemency granted by Cooper, which followed a two-year campaign by advocates against the death penalty calling on Cooper to use his power more widely, changed the sentences of the 15 inmates from death to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
—Avi Bajpai, Charlotte Observer, 10 Sep. 2025
Meanwhile, an inmate who spent time with Kohberger in jail told police that the killer's favorite movie is American Psycho.
—Chris Spargo, PEOPLE, 10 Sep. 2025
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Margaret Shreiner, jsonline.com, 10 Sep. 2025
Winners include a non-fiction work about Taiwan’s only female death row inmate that took top honors at Taipei International Book Exhibition and earned Frankfurt Book Fair selection.
—Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 10 Sep. 2025
The clemency granted by Cooper, which followed a two-year campaign by advocates against the death penalty calling on Cooper to use his power more widely, changed the sentences of the 15 inmates from death to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
—Avi Bajpai, Charlotte Observer, 10 Sep. 2025
Meanwhile, an inmate who spent time with Kohberger in jail told police that the killer's favorite movie is American Psycho.
—Chris Spargo, PEOPLE, 10 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for inmate
prisoner
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Every trip to the electric chair is horrifying; a sequence where an intentionally botched execution ignites a still-living prisoner's screaming head in ghoulish blue flames is up there with any supernatural fright King's ever conceived.—
James Grebey,
Time,
12 Sep. 2025
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Belarus' state news agency Belta said the prisoners freed on Thursday included 14 foreign nationals from Lithuania, Latvia, Poland, France, Britain and Germany.—
Andrius Sytas,
USA Today,
11 Sep. 2025
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“Inmate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inmate. Accessed 15 Sep. 2025.
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