prison guard

Definitions

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

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Examples

“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.”

“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.”

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

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