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Definition of Cellmate
1. one of two or more prisoners sharing a cell [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cellmate
Literary usage of Cellmate
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. No Escape: Male Rape in U.S. Prisons by Joanne Mariner, Human Rights Watch (Organization) (2001)
""But he wanted to get rid of me. It usually cost $30 to get out of a ride."9 SH's
cellmate promised him that the debt would not entail any sex. ..."
2. Public Scandals: Sexual Orientation and Criminal Law in Romania : a Report by Human Rights Watch (Organization), Human Rights Watch (Organization (1998)
"The cellmate then testified that Munteanu and the other detainee raped him; ...
Munteanu believes police persuaded the cellmate to accuse him, to punish him ..."
3. My Life in Prison by Donald Lowrie (1912)
"About two months afterward a man undergoing a sentence of thirty days at Salt
Lake City for vagrancy told his cellmate that he was the man who had committed ..."
4. All Too Familiar: Sexual Abuse of Women in U.S. State Prisons by Dorothy Q. Thomas (1996)
"I was not.36 Alice C. told us that in 1993 she used to leave her cell so that a
lieutenant could be alone with her cellmate.37 According to Alice C., ..."
5. "Welcome to Hell": Arbitrary Detention, Torture, and Extortion in Chechnya by Johanna Bjorken, Human Rights Watch, Human Rights Watch (Organization), Peter Bouckaert (2000)
""Umar Khakimov," another cellmate, told Human Rights Watch, "When the commission
came he complained. He was bruised, and that is why they questioned him. ..."
6. Prison Conditions in Egypt by Middle East Watch (Organization, Middle East Watch (Organization) (1992)
"Salah is serving a twenty-five-year narcotics sentence, according to a cellmate.
Salah is only about two feet tall, and his arms and legs are severely ..."
7. My Life Out of Prison by Donald Lowrie (1915)
"I didn't put on my brogans because I didn't want to disturb the sleep of my
cellmate — a lifer who had sixteen years' service chalked up against Time. ..."
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