A person who is imprisoned together with another person; a fellow inmate or cellmate.
From co- (together) + prisoner (from French prise, capture), describing people confined together in the same institution.
The prison system historically paired inmates as psychological strategy—sometimes for control, sometimes for reform—so coprisoners had to figure out how to survive sharing a small cell with a stranger.
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