The Inmate (Spanish: El Recluso)[1] is an American television series produced by Telemundo Internacional Studios that premiered on Telemundo on 25 September 2018 and concluded on 11 October 2018.

[2] It is an adaptation of the Argentine television series titled El Marginal created by Sebastián Ortega and Adrián Caetano.

[2] The series tells the story of an ex-marine who enters a maximum security prison on the border between Mexico and the United States to investigate the kidnapping of the daughter of a prominent US judge.

[3][4] An American ex-marine, Lázaro Mendoza (Ignacio Serricchio) enters a maximum security prison in Mexico (La Rotunda), under a false identity and accused of an alleged triple homicide.

They are the main suspects in the kidnapping of the teenage daughter of an American judge named John Morris (Guy Ecker).