An armed person working to provide order, security, discipline, punishment, and prevent escapes of prisoners in a jail that answers to a warden(noun)
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Use "prison guard" in a sentence
"Yesterday he called Bill Clinton, Kofi Annan, and the Pope, but when none of them miraculously appeared, he settled for his prison guard and his anesthesiologist."
"Paroled after nearly a decade, during which time he lost an eye to a sadistic prison guard and impregnated his wife by smuggling out his semen in a dinner roll."