prison officers
Correctional facility staff
Prison officers are staff who supervise inmates in jails, prisons, and other detention facilities.
The term is more common in British English; Americans typically say correctional officers or prison guards.
Their duties include maintaining order, enforcing rules, and ensuring security: Prison officers conducted a cell search after the riot.
- handcuffsLocking wrist restraints
- jailerPrison guard
- custodianGuardian of a place
- supervisingDirecting and monitoring work
- wardenSupervisory custodian of place
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- prisonsinmates, cells, penitentiary, guards, Alcatraz
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