User:Luciferwildcat/prisonguard

Alternate forms

 * prisonguard

Noun

 * 1)  An armed person working to provide order, security, discipline, punishment, and prevent escapes of prisoners in a jail that answers to a warden, usually a man
 * 2) * 1997, Gary Indiana, Resentment: a comedy, 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.
 * 1) * Marc Ian Barasc, The Compassionate Life, link
 * The Telfaire prisonguard towers rise miragelike in the swampy sunlight like giant mushroom caps on grey concrete stalks.
 * 1) * Arctos, Volumnes 21-23, 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.

Synonyms

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

Translations

 * Spanish: carcelero


 * Swedish: fångvaktare

prison guard prison guard