Noun
prison guard (plural prison guards)
- (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, 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, 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, San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler, →ISBN:The Telfaire Prisonguard towers rise miragelike in the swampy sunlight like giant mushroom caps on grey concrete stalks.
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
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