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What do you think of how Warden Glynn does his job?


Not only is he inept, he's also irresponsible and callous toward the prisoners. He makes decisions arbitrarily depending on how he's feeling at the time.
(Ernie Hudson does a great job in his acting, for sure.)

But Glynn is one of the worst "leaders" or bosses on any show I've seen. I'm surprised, when entertainment lists are made, that his name isn't mentioned more often.

I guess his decisions are eclipsed by violent acts of the prisoners...but he has allowed and actually caused some of said acts. He's just terrible at his job and not a good person.

Even McManus, another idiot who allows his genitals to make decisions for him, would do better at the job than Glynn.

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No way you are joking. He was actually the best character on the show, a pretty fair man. McManus is an idiot compared to him.

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He is probably the worst Warden ever when it comes right down to it.

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He was a grunt that made it up the ranks to become Warden! That doesn't work IMO; a need for a real professional! He was ok for a while, then went insane allowing prisoners to breath in all those poisons in solitary! Why the doctor didn't blow the whistle is still making me shake my head! ;-/

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He was a horrible Warden. The amount of prisoners and guards that were murdered over the course of 6 years was unbelievably high. The fact that a prisoner disappeared without any questions asked (Luke Perry) or road blocks thrown up is a joke. He lets an elderly prisoner build a massive escape tunnel twice. His prison unit is overtaken, 8 killed with literally no repercussions at all. He would have been fired after season 2 in real life

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Just look at the prisons track record. In real life it would never go that far. The amount of fights alone would be grounds to fire him, let alone the shanking and murdering. I like warden as a character but if he were really good at his job, the prison would run better. Murphy is the only good c.o. and just look at alvarez. Totally unrealistic that the warden would even be ALLOWED to let him out of solitary, forgetting the warden hates alvarez and shouldn't want alvarez out anyway. Also look how bad em city got when quernes ran it. He clearly never even set foot in em city to check how it was. Yeah, he sucks

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But Querns cut the violence; that was the most important thing to him! It didn't seem to matter if drug trafficking was rampant, that the inmates were running the different sections of the prison, and felonious blackmail was going on!  

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