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jailer

noun as in prison warden

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Unlike her jailers, she doesn’t have to tie people down to talk them into doing what she wants.

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Most of the time, jailers just looked at her federal ID and let her in without asking why she was there.

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Chief jailer George Webb checks a list of articles to be moved to temporary quarters on the city pier in Dec. 7, 1938.

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And he suggested the department could reduce its jail staffing needs by releasing some people if jailers are not able to provide a constitutionally adequate level of care.

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While concerns about staff-incited violence are commonplace among juvenile defense attorneys, Gunsberg said that officers are not punished because youths are rarely willing to speak out against their jailers.

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