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Peñalosa also told the jury that the inmate’s injuries didn’t necessarily prove his client used excessive force.
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Alex Riggins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Oct. 2025
Vedam earned several degrees behind bars, tutored hundreds of fellow inmates and went nearly half a century with just a single infraction, involving rice brought in from the outside.
—Maryclaire Dale, Fortune, 29 Oct. 2025
Jackson County sheriff’s deputies have released the name of an inmate who died after having a medical emergency at the Jackson County Detention Center last week.
—Caroline Zimmerman, Kansas City Star, 29 Oct. 2025
That puts the nation on pace to execute at least 46 inmates in 2025.
—Amanda Lee Myers, USA Today, 28 Oct. 2025
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Alex Riggins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Oct. 2025
Vedam earned several degrees behind bars, tutored hundreds of fellow inmates and went nearly half a century with just a single infraction, involving rice brought in from the outside.
—Maryclaire Dale, Fortune, 29 Oct. 2025
Jackson County sheriff’s deputies have released the name of an inmate who died after having a medical emergency at the Jackson County Detention Center last week.
—Caroline Zimmerman, Kansas City Star, 29 Oct. 2025
That puts the nation on pace to execute at least 46 inmates in 2025.
—Amanda Lee Myers, USA Today, 28 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for inmate
prisoner
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Amid the untold death and destruction that has ravaged the Gaza Strip for the past two years and continues to strike with little notice, one group is tasked with delivering Israeli hostages and Palestinian prisoners—alive and dead—across one of the bloodiest front lines on Earth.—
Tom O'Connor,
MSNBC Newsweek,
31 Oct. 2025
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More than 1,900 living Palestinian prisoners and detainees who were released by Israel under the ceasefire agreement.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
31 Oct. 2025
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“Inmate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inmate. Accessed 6 Nov. 2025.
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