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  2. Prison officer - Wikipedia

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    A prison officer (PO) or corrections officer (CO), also known as a correctional law enforcement officer or less formally as a prison guard, is a uniformed law enforcement official responsible for the custody, supervision, safety, and regulation of prisoners. They are responsible for the security of the facility and its property as well as other ...

  3. Stanford prison experiment - Wikipedia

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    Asking a person role-playing a guard in a prison simulation to be "firm" and "in the action" is mild compared to the pressure exerted by actual wardens and superior officers in real-life prison and military settings, where guards failing to participate fully can face disciplinary hearings, demotion, or dismissal. [17]

  4. Panopticon - Wikipedia

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    Guards had to walk from the hall along the radial corridors and could only observe prisoners in their cells by looking through the cell door's peephole. [16] In 1925, Cuba's president Gerardo Machado set out to build a modern prison, based on Bentham's concepts and employing the latest scientific theories on rehabilitation.

  5. Confessions Of A Prison Guard - AOL

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    prison guard confessions Of course, as is the case with any drama, it's difficult to tell whether the actors' portrayals of corrections officers are the real deal or simply tired stereotypes.

  6. Prison warden - Wikipedia

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    The prison warden supervises all the operations within the prison. Prisons vary in size, with some housing thousands of inmates. They are responsible for the prison's security, the performance of staff of the prison (including prison officers, prison doctors, janitors, cooks and others), the management of its funds, the maintenance of its facilities and the welfare of its inmates.

  7. Trusty system (prison) - Wikipedia

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    Their job was to act as prison guards and control other inmates on a day-to-day basis in the residential camps or out on the field work crews. Next came the unarmed trusties who performed janitorial, clerical, and other menial tasks for the prison's staff. Simple tasks, such as distributing medication, were carried out by other categories of ...

  8. Ex jail guard going to prison for smuggling drugs, phones to ...

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    A former officer at the Benton County jail who smuggled drugs and cellphones to inmates was sentenced in federal court to three years and 10 months in prison on Tuesday.. Eric Christian, 34 ...

  9. Prison guard - Wikipedia

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