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Some Colorado sheriff's offices do contact ICE ahead of releasing inmates wanted for deportation, though others shy away from the practice.
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Jessica Seaman, The Denver Post, 5 Feb. 2025
Sundance was created to launch talents like Tonatiuh, a young actor from Los Angeles, who’s fantastic as a prison inmate who papers his cell with posters of Lopez’s fantasy icon.
—Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 2 Feb. 2025
California has utilized inmates to combat fires for over a century, according to reporting from NPR.
—Elizabeth Stanton, Fox News, 2 Feb. 2025
By then, the report said, the prisons had done just 350 COVID tests in a population of about 40,000 inmates.
—Graham Rayman, New York Daily News, 31 Jan. 2025
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Jessica Seaman, The Denver Post, 5 Feb. 2025
Sundance was created to launch talents like Tonatiuh, a young actor from Los Angeles, who’s fantastic as a prison inmate who papers his cell with posters of Lopez’s fantasy icon.
—Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 2 Feb. 2025
California has utilized inmates to combat fires for over a century, according to reporting from NPR.
—Elizabeth Stanton, Fox News, 2 Feb. 2025
By then, the report said, the prisons had done just 350 COVID tests in a population of about 40,000 inmates.
—Graham Rayman, New York Daily News, 31 Jan. 2025
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“Inmate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inmate. Accessed 16 Feb. 2025.
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