7 Gaolers

1- Better the Jailer then the jailed

His country was invaded by a far bigger country ruled by a ferocious dictator, and he organised a small demonstration against the new regime. He was quickly arrested and given a choice- join the Prison Service as a prison officer, or be sent to prison as a prisoner for several years at the least. Not wanting to become a martyr, he took the first option, and now has several genuine friends on the prison staff and dislikes most of the prisoners like they do, helped in this by the fact that many of the prisoners are criminals who deserve to be locked up.

2-The Dishonest

He took the job so that he could make illicit income by smuggling things to the prisoners. It started small with extra food or cigarettes, and then branched into pillows, drugs, messages, and even knives and mobile phones. The other prisoners refrain from attacking him because of this, and he doesn’t bother them unless he absolutely has to come to the aid of a fellow prison officer to keep his job.

3-The Undercover 

He is in fact an undercover journalist who has heard dark tales of prisoners being unjustly beaten, tortured and even murdered by certain prison officers and has put on a hidden camera and infiltrated the prison system as a prison officer to find out if the tales of torture are true or made up. If he is found out, he will be in trouble, and not just with the law. It would be easy to make sure certain prisoners who hate all prison officers find him alone and beat him up or much worse.

4-Double Agent

A member of a terrorist cell with a clean criminal record, he had infiltrated the Prison Service on the orders of his cell commander to befriend prison officers until they like and trust him enough to invite him to their homes, and then he will leak the information to his terrorist group so they can send out killers to assassinate the prison officers in one go, as well as faking an attack on him but deliberately missing with their bullets to preserve his cover from being blown. That way, their imprisoned members will get better treatment from the surviving prison officers out of fear that otherwise they will be the next ones to be murdered.

5-Means Well

Not everyone who becomes a prison officer is evil or joined for the wrong reasons. The Means Well truly does wish that he could rehabilitate the prisoners and despairs that the foul prison conditions makes that almost impossible in most cases. If it was up to him, prison would be a less unpleasant place.

6-Mr Nasty

He started off in a prison where the prisoners were serving relatively short prison sentences and had a lot to lose as a result from attacking prison officers, and he became nasty to them, confiscating all contraband rather than just dangerous items like knives or mobile phones, making them miss visits from their family, spreading rumours about them, and, occasionally, beating them up.
Now he is serving in a maximum security prison where most of the prisoners are there for life, and if he doesn’t change his ways, one of the lifers will murder him as the country has no death penalty and the lifer has not much to lose even if he murders a prison officer.

7-By the Book

He does things by the book. Whilst he won’t give prisoners anything that they are not legally entitled to, if they are legally entitled to things, he always makes sure that they do get said things, and he refrains from himself meting out unofficial punishments and torture. So although the prisoners don’t like him, they do grudgingly respect him. If more prison officers were like him, there would be less prison riots and fewer prison escapes.