The phrase "a convict in a" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing crime, punishment, or the prison system, often to describe a person who has been convicted of a crime.
Example: "The documentary focused on the life of a convict in a maximum-security prison, exploring the challenges they faced daily."
Alternatives: "an inmate in a" or "a prisoner in a".
But Egan spoils things with an unsavory framing device: Danny's story, we learn, has been written by a convict in a jail cell.
Three days before Christmas, Milton Milan made the short journey from the office of mayor of Camden to the life of a convict in a Philadelphia detention center.
"Wouldn't he rather be living as a centimillionaire in his own country rather than as a convict in a jail?" Judge Dennis Jacobs asked Patricia A. Millett, a lawyer for Mr. Rajaratnam, at the hearing on Wednesday.
"Wouldn't he rather be living as a centimillionaire in his own country rather than as a convict in a jail?" Judge Dennis Jacobs asked Patricia A. Millett, the lawyer for Mr. Rajaratnam.
Sullivan (Joel McCrea) is a successful Hollywood director of escapist fluff (eg Ants in Your Pants of 1939) who now wants to make a serious film called Brother Where Art Thou? (inspiration for the Coens) and goes on the road in search of American reality – only to suffer a series of Candide-like misadventures and end up as a convict in a chain-gang.
"What distinguished her from the start," Time magazine wrote in 1960, "was the meticulous care with which she tried to recreate the feeling of her folk songs; to understand the emotions of a convict in a convict ditty, she once tried breaking up rocks with a sledgehammer".
That is what is felt by a convict in an always-lighted cell.
More than a year ago we published a letter from a convict in San Quentin Prison, Calif.
A military convoy arrived, and Pushkin saw a convict in shackles leaning against a post.
It's also a spectacular piece of writing: a brutal story about a convict in the final stages of pregnancy.
A s some of our readers appear to be… More than a year ago we published a letter from a convict in San Quentin Prison, Calif.
