It threw me off the inmate and C.O. clothing not being correct. And Noah using the word guard. I've never heard an inmate call a C.O. that or use that word when talking about them in over 16 years of working in corrections.
shareI'm assuming the writers are spoiled and lazy. They know they don't have to do actual research.
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I noticed he did call his probation officer "Officer." But I suspect that the writers chose the word guard because it is more common parlance to the lay public who are watching the show. For someone not familiar with the prison system, we would have more an immediate understanding of the term "guard" than if he had just used the initials "C.O." And the full term "correctional officer" might mean a number of positions, or be too bulky in verbalizing a line.
I guess in writing television shows or movies, the writers have to judge whether to be totally factually correct and therefore risk confusing people not familiar with the intricacies of the system they are showing, or whether to make it more simple and explanatory for the general audience and for the flow of the narrative/dialogue.
Now the C.O. uses the term 'warden'. No, it's Superintendent. But I guess that wouldn't be well known. And 'the hole'? No, it's the box (or S.H.U.)
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