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The phrase "an inmate in a" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a person who is confined in a prison or correctional facility, typically followed by the name of the institution or type of facility.
Example: "He was an inmate in a maximum-security prison, serving a lengthy sentence for his crimes."
Alternatives: "a prisoner in a" or "a detainee in a".
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He also happens to be an inmate in a federal prison.
The state spends about $125 to $150 a day to house an inmate in a prison.
For example, an inmate in a Californian prison costs about $47,000 a year to keep.
"I heard fighting, wrestling, yelling, screaming, guy yelling for help," Vincent Caputo, an inmate in a nearby room, would testify.
It's the work of William Van Poyck, an inmate in a Florida prison who was executed last year.
"Granted: I'm an inmate in a mental institution…" So begins Oskar Matzerath, narrator of Günter Grass's 1959 debut.
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The movie ended by revealing that the narrator was an inmate in an institution run by a humane psychiatrist, Dr. Caligari.
At the start of the game you wake up under mysterious circumstances as an inmate in an insane asylum where the security system has malfunctioned.
Justice Department officials said Mr. Hammer killed an inmate in 1996 while in a penitentiary in Allenwood, Pa.
Last October, Daniel Denvir, then a reporter for Philadelphia City Paper, obtained video footage of a guard at a local prison clocking an inmate in the face.
In 2007, the chief of detectives in the parish sheriff's office made a deal to buy a pickup truck from an inmate in the parish jail, a woman he knew to be an acquaintance of one of the victims.
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