Sentence examples for inmates joining from inspiring English sources

Last year, spurred by hunger strikes and a lawsuit, the California state prison system reduced the population of its Solitary Housing Unit by thousands of inmates, joining states such as Colorado, Mississippi, Maine and North Carolina that have made similar changes.

Last year, spurred by hunger strikes and a lawsuit, the California state prison system reduced the population of its Solitary Housing Unit by thousands of inmates, joining states such as Colorado, Mississippi, Maine and North Carolina that have made similar changes.

Inmates joined in a chorus of "Let him fall".

Activists say some 33,000 inmates joined the beginning of the latest strike and that the number has settled to around 400.

In the months after the killing, by a prisoner acting alone, more than 600 inmates joined a lawsuit against the state alleging beatings, abuse and retribution at the hands of New Jersey state prison guards.

Other inmates joined in, comparing the time-management problems of executives and inmates, until Matt Lemon, who was convicted of murder, moved the discussion to what he said was a very real pressure on inmates -- their powerlessness when things go wrong back home.

Other inmates joined in on the fight.

"Inmates join a faction to protect themselves in prison, and remain associated once they're out," said HRW Brazil Director Maria Laura Canineu.

At the time of the library's closing, the wards, as county officials refer to the youthful inmates, joined library officials in trying to persuade the county Board of Supervisors to keep it open.

The policy attracted international attention earlier this summer, when thousands of protesting California inmates joined a three-week hunger strike by prisoners at the state's maximum-security lockup at Pelican Bay.

Kara Tragesser, Gissendaner's friend and former fellow inmate, joined the group.