English

Alternative forms

• prisonguard

Noun

prison guard ‎(plural prison guards)

1. (law enforcement) An armed person working to provide order, security, discipline, punishment, and prevent escapes of prisoners in a jail that answers to a warden.
   • 1997, Indiana, Gary, Resentment: A comedy, New York: Anchor Books, published 1998, ISBN 9780385493369, OL 7440418M, page 170:

     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.

   • 1987, Arctos: Acta philologica fennica, page 29:

     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.

   • 2011, Barasc, Marc Ian, The Compassionate Life: Walking the Path of Kindness, San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler, ISBN 9781605099019:

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

Synonyms

• corrections officer, jailer, turnkey, warder, jailor, ****, cop

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