lifers
Prisoners serving forever
Lifers is the plural of lifer, someone serving a life sentence in prison: The lifers had their own section of the yard.
Extended to anyone committed to something for the long haul—career military, devoted employees, lifelong members of an organization: She's a lifer at the company, been there thirty years.
The term suggests permanence, whether imposed or chosen.
Incarcerated individuals
- prisonersIncarcerated individuals
- convictsImprisoned felons
- cellblockPrison housing unit
- penitentiaryFacility for convicted criminals
warden · correctional · detention · imprisonment · custody · lockup · solitary · maximum security
Lifelong occupational pursuit
- committedFirmly pledged or bound
- devotedLoyally and lovingly attached
- long-termLasting extended period
- veteranExperienced former soldier
loyal · tenured · old-timers · company man · retired · pensioner · steadfast
State without hope
- futilityLack of purpose
- resignationVoluntary relinquishment of position
- bleaknessQuality of being dreary
- fatalismDoctrine of inevitable outcomes
abandonment · helplessness · institutionalization · monotony · routine · isolation · loneliness · regret
Recovery or moral restoration
- transformationThorough change in form
- recoveryRegaining what was lost
- counselingProfessional guidance for problems
- educationSystematic development of mind
vocational training · mentoring · self-improvement · support groups · reintegration · restoration · healing · empowerment
Firmly held belief
- verdictOfficial court decision
- mandatoryRequired by rule
- irreversibleCannot be undone
- clemencyMerciful treatment of offenders
appeal · finality · judgment · court · punishment · judiciary · jurisprudence · guilty
inmates
Incarcerated individuals
penitentiary · warden · correctional · detention · imprisonment · custody · lockup · solitary · maximum security · parole board
career
Lifelong occupational pursuit
- committedFirmly pledged or bound
- devotedLoyally and lovingly attached
- long-termLasting extended period
veteran · loyal · tenured · old-timers · company man · retired · pensioner · steadfast
hopelessness
State without hope
- futilityLack of purpose
- resignationVoluntary relinquishment of position
- bleaknessQuality of being dreary
fatalism · abandonment · helplessness · institutionalization · monotony · routine · isolation · loneliness · regret · remorse
redemption
Recovery or moral restoration
- transformationThorough change in form
- recoveryRegaining what was lost
- counselingProfessional guidance for problems
education · vocational training · mentoring · self-improvement · support groups · reintegration · restoration · healing · empowerment · second chance
conviction
Firmly held belief
- verdictOfficial court decision
- mandatoryRequired by rule
- irreversibleCannot be undone
clemency · appeal · finality · judgment · court · punishment · judiciary · jurisprudence · guilty · sentencing
- prisonsprison, inmates, cells, prisons, prisoner
- penologypenology, prisons, incarceration, parole board, prison
- birdingbirding, bird watching, birdwatcher, birder, binoculars
- prisonersprisoners, inmates, convicts, felons, jailbirds
- long-term employeesseniority, tenure, loyalty, retention, veterans
- loyal supportersdiehards, loyalists, devotees, die-hard fans, true believers
lifersshort-timers
Employees nearing their end
parolees · weekenders · first-time offenders · ex-cons · misdemeanants
lifersshort-timers
Employees nearing their end
temps · draftees · conscripts · transients · job-hoppers
- real lifeExistence beyond imagination
- life supportSystems maintaining vital functions
- life and deathMatters of survival
- for lifePermanent, until death
- come to lifeBegin showing vitality
- daily lifeRegular everyday activities
life, lifetime, lifestyle, afterlife, lifelong, lifelike, lifeline, lifeboat, lifespan