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Prison warden
Thomas Mott Osborne, warden of Sing Sing with two of his jailers.
Occupation
Activity sectors
Corrections
Description
Competencies
Managerial skills, knowledge of the law
Education required
University or vocational education
Fields of employment
Prison
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Prison officer
The warden (US, Canada) or governor (UK, Australia), also known as a superintendent (US, South Asia) or director (UK, New Zealand), is the official who is in charge of a prison.
in charge of a prison. In the United States, Mexico, and Canada, warden is the most common title for an official in charge of a prison or jail. In some...
"superintendent". William Britten (warden) (?–1821) 1816–1821. He was a master carpenter and builder of the prison. He became the first warden. Elam Lynds (1784–1855)...
Warden is often used in the sense of a watchman or guardian, as in a prisonwarden. It can also refer to a chief or head official, as in the Warden of...
maximum-security prison in the United States, with 6,300 prisoners and 1,800 staff, including corrections officers, janitors, maintenance workers, and wardens. Due...
were also housing and recreational facilities for the prisonwardens. divided into separate prisons for males and females of different racial classifications...
functioned as the ex-officio warden of the prison. The Governor, Secretary of State, and Attorney General comprise the board of prison commissioners. In 1867...
case of dowry. They share their pain in prison under the watch of a brutal prisonwarden, who would force the prison inmates into prostitution for political...
gave Elam Lynds, warden of Auburn Prison and a former United States Army captain, the task of constructing a new, more modern prison. Lynds spent months...
to Newgate Prison, and an act, the Warden of Fleet Prison Act 1728 (2 Geo. 2. c. 32), was passed to prevent his enjoying the office of warden. During the...
traveling salesman Ali Hakim in the musical Oklahoma!, and the sadistic prisonwarden in 1974's The Longest Yard. He starred as Oliver Wendell Douglas in...
and becomes instrumental in a money laundering operation led by the prisonwarden Samuel Norton (Bob Gunton). William Sadler, Clancy Brown, Gil Bellows...
captured in South Coventry Township, 23 miles away from the prison "Warden at Chester County Prison is on leave, official says". Daily Local. 2023-08-03. Retrieved...
Among his many roles, he played Captain Edward Smith in Titanic (1997), PrisonWarden Luther Plunkitt in Clint Eastwood's True Crime (1999), and Théoden,...
The official who is in charge of a specific prison is known by various titles, including: "prisonwarden" (US and Canada), "governor" (UK and Australia)...
controls education, or regulates the mail, airwaves, legal bar, military, prisons, and immigration. The Supreme Court has held that "advocacy of the use...
but has a wider variety of ingredients. Prison loaf is usually bland, even unpleasant, but prisonwardens argue that nutraloaf provides enough nutrition...
of The Museum of Curiosity on BBC Radio 4. In 2022, she played the prisonwarden on Pennyworth. Phillips was born in Hong Kong, which at the time was...
exception to this rule, as Warden Conley instituted extensive inmate labor projects that kept many inmates at work constructing the prison buildings and walls...
terms. This is Pope's last appearance. Warden Ed Pavelka (played by Brandon Smith) took over as Warden at the prison after Pope quit after the Fox River...