prison guard

• prisonguard

From prison +‎ guard.

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, Gary Indiana, Resentment: A comedy‎^[1], New York: Anchor Books, published 1998, →ISBN, →OL, 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^[2], volumes 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.

   • 2011, Marc Ian Barasc, The Compassionate Life: Walking the Path of Kindness‎^[3], San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler, →ISBN:

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

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