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Recent Examples of inmates
Additionally, inmates are receiving a better meal, consistent with our usual holiday offerings, during filming.
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Irene Wright, USA Today, 3 June 2026
The department said all staff and inmates have been accounted for and are safe.
—Briauna Brown, CBS News, 3 June 2026
The Employment Development Department rubber-stamped a deluge of applications, some of them from state prison inmates, with little or no scrutiny.
—Dan Walters, Mercury News, 3 June 2026
The Employment Development Department rubber-stamped a deluge of applications, some of them from state prison inmates, with little or no scrutiny.
—Dan Walters, Oc Register, 2 June 2026
In April 2024, two inmates attacked van der Sloot in a common area of the Challapalca prison, per the New York Post.
—Jessica Sager, PEOPLE, 30 May 2026
Washington’s wife, Toni Washington, criticized jail employees for not searching inmates more thoroughly for drugs, and for placing Asaiah in a cell with an inmate who had been caught smuggling drugs into the jail before.
—Theresa Clift
may 29, Sacbee.com, 29 May 2026
There are around 600 inmates across federal prisons who have been diagnosed with gender dysphoria, according to federal prison data.
—Kaelan Deese, The Washington Examiner, 27 May 2026
Consider the 2006 mass pardon in Italy, in which 40% of all inmates in the country were released from prison all at once.
—Jens Ludwig, Chicago Tribune, 13 Apr. 2025
Irene Wright, USA Today, 3 June 2026
The department said all staff and inmates have been accounted for and are safe.
—Briauna Brown, CBS News, 3 June 2026
The Employment Development Department rubber-stamped a deluge of applications, some of them from state prison inmates, with little or no scrutiny.
—Dan Walters, Mercury News, 3 June 2026
The Employment Development Department rubber-stamped a deluge of applications, some of them from state prison inmates, with little or no scrutiny.
—Dan Walters, Oc Register, 2 June 2026
In April 2024, two inmates attacked van der Sloot in a common area of the Challapalca prison, per the New York Post.
—Jessica Sager, PEOPLE, 30 May 2026
Washington’s wife, Toni Washington, criticized jail employees for not searching inmates more thoroughly for drugs, and for placing Asaiah in a cell with an inmate who had been caught smuggling drugs into the jail before.
—Theresa Clift
may 29, Sacbee.com, 29 May 2026
There are around 600 inmates across federal prisons who have been diagnosed with gender dysphoria, according to federal prison data.
—Kaelan Deese, The Washington Examiner, 27 May 2026
Consider the 2006 mass pardon in Italy, in which 40% of all inmates in the country were released from prison all at once.
—Jens Ludwig, Chicago Tribune, 13 Apr. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for inmates
prisoners
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Most of these prisoners had committed relatively minor offenses like petty theft, but because of prison overcrowding in Great Britain, they were transferred to Australia to do manual labor like building roads, farming, construction, etc.—
AFAR Media,
AFAR Media,
30 May 2026
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Six Hawaiian prisoners were indicted last year in the May 2024 homicide of another prisoner, with five of the men being charged with first-degree murder, the news outlet reported.—
Alex Brizee,
Idaho Statesman,
29 May 2026
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“Inmates.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inmates. Accessed 11 Jun. 2026.
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