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inmate

noun

Definition of inmate

as in prisoner

a person who is kept in a prison the reintegration of former inmates into society

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Recent Examples of inmate The Los Angeles Police Department released a video that shows officers at the Valley jail manhandle an uncooperative inmate who died after he was left handcuffed with a bag over his head while laying prone on the bunk in his cell. — Los Angeles Times, 29 Aug. 2026 The Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office announced the death of an inmate Friday at the Sacramento County Main Jail. — Tania Azhang, Sacbee.com, 29 Aug. 2026 The Wisconsin Department of Corrections made tablets available to inmates in 2018, four years before the Milwaukee County Jail. — Caden Perry, jsonline.com, 29 Aug. 2026 Recent spike in inmate deaths at the penitentiary In fiscal year 2025 – July 1, 2024, through June 30, 2025 – the DOC reported 19 deaths within its annual report, the most in a decade. — Tj Rhodes, Sioux Falls Argus Leader, 28 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for inmate

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Noun

This was discontinued when SOE chiefs realized that a dagger would be the first thing taken from a prisoner.

— David Szondy August 30, New Atlas, 30 Aug. 2026
West Virginia was one of a few states – alongside Maryland and Texas – to receive these excess urban prisoners.

— Ella Siegrist, The Conversation, 28 Aug. 2026

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