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- noun Plural form of
trusty .
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In Louisiana, the Department of Public Safety uses about 160 inmate workers, known as trusties, for various jobs.
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In Louisiana, the Department of Public Safety uses about 160 inmate workers, known as trusties, for various jobs.
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In Louisiana, the Department of Public Safety uses about 160 inmate workers, known as trusties, for various jobs.
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In Louisiana, the Department of Public Safety uses about 160 inmate workers, known as trusties, for various jobs.
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In Louisiana, the Department of Public Safety uses about 160 inmate workers, known as trusties, for various jobs.
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In Louisiana, the Department of Public Safety uses about 160 inmate workers, known as trusties, for various jobs.
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"The governor must not have no grandkids coming in ... cause I wouldn't trust them folks," added Bonds, referring to the trusties.
CNN.com 2012
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The "trusties" — in other words, the 800 of 5,000 prisoners who have earned certain privileges through good behavior — can walk without surveillance, almost free, on these 18,000 acres of greenery that they call in these parts The Farm.
In the Footsteps of Tocqueville (Part Three) Bernard-Henri L 2005
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The "trusties" — in other words, the 800 of 5,000 prisoners who have earned certain privileges through good behavior — can walk without surveillance, almost free, on these 18,000 acres of greenery that they call in these parts The Farm.
In the Footsteps of Tocqueville (Part Three) Bernard-Henri L 2005
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General Blaskowitz, the Ger - man Army commander in Poland, and an upright man who had the courage to protest several times to OKH about SS behaviour, had been arrested by the Americans and was gar - rotted by SS guards employed as "trusties" by the prison camp commandant.
Barbarossa Clark, Alan 1965
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