This article explores how prison staff manage their emotions when dealing with the death of a prisoner. It seeks to extend current understandings of emotions in prison work by exploring emotion management and performance among prison staff who have experienced a prisoner's death. It utilises Hochschild's (1983) concept of emotional labour, which has informed previous studies of emotion in prison work, and contributes to this existing research by applying extensions of Hochschild's ideas developed by Bolton (2005) and Korczynski (2003). Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 17 Irish Prison Service staff who have experienced prisoner deaths. A contribution of this article is that it demonstrates the shifting emotional practices and preoccupations of prison staff through the stages of dealing with a prisoner's death. This article finds that shared expectations regarding the management of emotional responses to prisoner deaths promote the necessity of concealing emotional vulnerabilities within and beyond the prison walls.

本文探讨了监狱工作人员在处理囚犯死亡时如何管理自己的情绪。它试图通过探索经历过囚犯死亡的监狱工作人员的情绪管理和表现来扩展当前对监狱工作中的情绪的理解。它利用了霍奇希尔德（Hochschild，1983）的情感劳动概念，该概念为先前在监狱工作中的情感研究提供了信息，并通过应用Bolton（2005）和Korczynski（2003）提出的霍奇希尔德思想的扩展，为现有研究做出了贡献。对17名经历过囚犯死亡的爱尔兰监狱服务人员进行了半结构化访谈。本文的一个贡献是，它展示了在处理囚犯死亡的各个阶段中，监狱工作人员的情感行为和注意力正在发生变化。