prison guard

plural prison guards · alternative prisonguard

1. governmentAn armed person working to provide order, security, discipline, punishment, and prevent escapes of prisoners in a jail that answers to a warden.

   The Telfaire Prisonguard towers rise miragelike in the swampy sunlight like giant mushroom caps on grey concrete stalks.

   2011, Marc Ian Barasc, The Compassionate Life: Walking the Path of Kindness, San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler, →ISBN

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   And Tietelbaum has been bought and sold so many times by the dark Republican powers that be, look at the prisonguard beating trial and the Ventura County sewer fiasco.

   1997, Gary Indiana, Resentment: A comedy, New York: Anchor Books, published 1998, →ISBN, →OL, page 170

   During his services as a praetorian, Caesium Verus was twice promoted, first to tubicen (trumpeter), then to optio carceris (camp prisonguard): ordinatus tubicem item optio at carcarem factus est.

   1987, Arctos: Acta philologica fennica, volumes 21-23, page 29

   Synonyms: corrections officer, jailer, turnkey, warder, jailor, screw, cop