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October 11, 2014

Prisoners

Interlinked Thematic Vocabulary Unit Nº 269 v.03
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      Main Defintion

  1. prisoner / convict / detainee / inmate / jailbird / con / lifer /  yardbird |n| someone who is kept in a prison as a punishment for a crime, or while they are waiting for their trial.
  2. "Prisoner may be locked in their cells for twenty-two hours a day."
  3. "A prisoner serving a life sentence for murder."
  4. "A third of all inmates are remand prisoners who are awaiting trial or sentencing."

      Kinds of Prisoners

  1. captive 1 |n| a person who has been taken prisoner or confined.
  2. captive 2 |n| |especially literary| someone who is kept somewhere and not allowed to go free, especially in a war or fighting. Captive is a rather formal word which is used especially in literature.
  3. "Their objective was to disarm the enemy and release the captives."
  4. "She was held captive (kept as a prisoner) in the jungle for over three years."
  5. convict |n| |especially written| someone who has been found guilty of a crime and sent to a prison. Convict is used especially about someone who is sent to prison for a long time. It is more commonly used in historical descriptions, or in the phrase: "An escaped convict.".
  6. "The convicts were sent from England to Australia."
  7. "Police were hunting for and escaped convict."
  8. "Low-risk convicts help to fight forest fires and clean up public lands."
  9. detainee / internee / intern |n| someone who is kept in a prison, usually because of their political views and often without a trial.
  10. "In some cases, political detainees have been beaten or mistreated."
  11. "23,531 people passed through the camps between 1944 and 1962, including 14,647 political internees."
  12. "The detainees at Guantanamo Bay."
  13. "They were interned by the government for the duration of the war."
  14. inmate |n| someone who is kept in a prison or a mental hospital.
  15. "Some inmates are allowed to have special privileges."
  16. "He was described by a fellow inmate as a quiet man." 
  17. lifer |informal| |n| someone who has been punished by being put in prison for a very long time or until they die.

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