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trusties

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plural of trusty

as in convicts

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Nor could Grossman write about collaborators or the punishment battalions composed of convicts that were used as cannon fodder (one of many parallels between the conduct of the Soviet army and the present-day Russian military in Ukraine).

— Nick Holdstock, The Dial, 8 Sep. 2026
He is listed among the two hundred convicts who arrived in Sydney aboard the barque Norfolk in August 1829.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 10 July 2026

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Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum in Poland argues that artworks made by prisoners forced to do so in Nazi concentration camps are not their legal property.

— Devorah Lauter, ARTnews.com, 18 Sep. 2026
Krieps played the notorious wife of a Nazi concentration camp commander, Ilsa Koch, who was said to torture prisoners and make household objects out of human skin.

— Lily Ford, HollywoodReporter, 18 Sep. 2026

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In Barisone’s telling, staff and fellow-inmates were awed by his diligence.

— Ian Parker, New Yorker, 14 Sep. 2026
Jackson was particularly vocal in her criticism of the show’s shallow scripts, which featured plotlines about them going undercover as French maids, showgirls, lifeguards and, perhaps most infamously, prison inmates.

— Michael Callahan, HollywoodReporter, 11 Sep. 2026

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