The eponymous prison is naturally filled with various characters that
all exhibit
this trope in some fashion.
note The creators once claimed that although there are many hardened criminals in the cast, it's the staff that actually have more issues and cruelty.
- Although the Warden is generally goofy and childish, he often takes advantage of Jared and mistreats him. He was also shown to have more of a sadistic streak in earlier episodes, and would think nothing of letting inmates die to provide his amusement (or become food, as in the pilot). This was toned down a bit in later seasons, when his childishness became the bigger personality trait.
- Alice purposely uses her job as a guard to inflict sexual torture on inmates or force them into being her boyfriends, and is also shown to push Jared around and mock him.
- The inmates in general can get along at times, but aren't above manipulating or ostracizing one another. Nicky, the greaser-type inmate, has been shown as a ringleader to those who pick on Ash.
- The Mistress (as a female counterpart of the Warden) has her own vicious personality minus his carefree childish nature. She's shown to beat her own assistant for talking on the phone without permission, take over the Superjail for no reason other than to show up Warden (and demote him to being an inmate), and generally act like a bad-tempered snob. This seems to be subverted after she becomes a hippie.
- Lord Stingray is another example, owing to him being a Card-Carrying Villain and caring little about anyone else (except if it's his pet Fang). He even reduces Mistress to tears by yelling at her and insisting on having the most control in their relationship, to where she breaks up with him.
- The Twins and their family members can count as well. The Twins orchestrate death and destruction on a whim, and ate their own potential offspring after having Alice into helping them birth him. The Triplets beat and humiliate the Twins for their own amusement, kill and capture rival species multiple times just for fun, and are implied to have abused and taken things from their younger brothers their whole lives. The Twins' father? Gleefully takes pleasure in torturing his youngest sons for the purpose of having them "study", will neglect any children who can't impress him, and once sent a vicious shapeshifting dog in his first attempt to capture said youngest (although she didn't go as far as to kill THEM, she was shown to be very efficient and uncontrollable in her violence).
- The Warden's father is shown to be a major one in flashbacks, with one particular moment depicting him forcing his son to decapitate a puppy.
