prison guard

See also: prisonguard

English

Alternative forms

• prisonguard

Etymology

prison +‎ guard

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, 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.

Synonyms

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

Translations

person working to provide order to in a jail

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Azerbaijani: zindançı, zindanban, həbsxanaçı, həbsxana gözətçisi
• Belarusian: турэмшчык m (turemščyk), турэмшчыца f (turemščyca)
• Catalan: escarceller (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 獄警／狱警 (zh) (yùjǐng)

• Dutch: cipier (nl) m, gevangenbewaarder (nl) m, gevangenisbewaarder (nl) m
• Faroese: fangavørður m
• Finnish: vanginvartija (fi)
• French: surveillant pénitentiaire m, gardien de prison (fr) m, garde-chiourme (fr) m
• German: (colloquial) Schließer (de) m, Gefängniswärter (de) m, (bureaucratese) Justizvollzugsbeamte m
• Hungarian: börtönőr (hu)
• Indonesian: sipir (id)
• Italian: guardia carceraria f, agente di custodia m, carceriere (it) m, secondino (it) m
• Japanese: 看守 (ja) (kanshu)
• Korean: 교도관 (ko) (gyodogwan), 간수 (ko) (gansu)
• Polish: strażnik więzienny m
• Romanian: gardian (ro) m, temnicer (ro) m
• Russian: тюре́мный охра́нник m (tjurémnyj oxránnik), тюре́мщик (ru) m (tjurémščik)
• Spanish: carcelero (es) m
• Swedish: fångvaktare (sv) c, fängelsevakt
• Ukrainian: please add this translation if you can
• Vietnamese: cai ngục