inmate

IPA: ˈɪnmeɪt

A person confined to an institution such as a prison (as a convict) or hospital (as a patient).
A person who shares a residence (such as a hotel guest, a lodger, or a student living on campus), or other place.

Examples of "inmate" in Sentences

An inmate is not a resident of his former district.
This inmate is a recidivist of long standing and has no trouble in adjusting to prison routines ...
Does he really think “steal [ing] hubcaps or whatever” describes what the typical prison inmate is in there for?
This officer indicates that the inmate is a mature, fairly stable individual in whose life the prison sentence is an isolated incident.
Wisconsin inmate can't play Dungeons & Dragons - Seems that this inmate, down for life due to first-degree murder, has been banned form playing D&D (well, now it's everyone there, of course).
"Sure, we write about a lot of the good things that are happening in prison," says Aly Tamboura, the technical editor of the San Quentin News and a relatively shorter-term inmate than many of his colleagues.
An South Carolinian inmate is suing Vick, and had some pretty damning evidence to back up his claims: Jonathan Lee Riches filed the handwritten complaint over "theft and abuse of my animals" on July 23 in the U.S. District Court in Richmond, Va.