Drawing on interviews with halfway house staff, this article provides insight into how these workers conceive of their work and occupational identities within the specific context of the halfway house. Specifically, I examine how halfway house workers seek to differentiate their work and approach to governing former prisoners from that of parole officers. I demonstrate how halfway house workers in this study capitalized on their intermediary position as quasi-state agents, using meso-level complications and struggle to carve out a space in which they felt empowered to carry out multiple, and sometimes conflicting, agendas in their everyday work with halfway house residents.

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中介工作者：中途宿舍环境中监督和支持工作的叙述

本文通过对中途宿舍员工的采访，深入了解这些工人如何在中途宿舍的特定背景下设想他们的工作和职业身份。具体来说，我研究了中途工作人员如何将他们的工作和管理前囚犯的方法与假释官员的工作和方法区分开来。我展示了这项研究中的中途工人如何利用他们作为准国家代理人的中间地位，利用中观层面的复杂性和努力开辟一个空间，让他们觉得有能力在日常生活中执行多种有时相互冲突的议程与中途宿舍的居民一起工作。