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‘Trying to make it matter’: The challenges of assimilating a resettlement culture into a ‘local’ prison
Criminology & Criminal Justice ( IF 1.604 ) Pub Date : 2021-08-13 , DOI: 10.1177/17488958211037469
Matthew Cracknell 1
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As part of the Transforming Rehabilitation reforms, 70 ‘local’ prisons in England and Wales were re-designated as resettlement prisons, in order to provide additional through-the-gate support to individuals serving short sentences. Drawing on staff and prisoner interviews in one case study resettlement prison, this article considers what challenges were involved with implementing a resettlement culture in a local prison. Findings first outline factors inhibiting the resettlement status of the prison; these include a tension between attempts to implement a more expansive resettlement remit into the prison, while also fulfilling more long-standing core institutional duties; the size and churn of the prison population; wide-scale apathy caused by change fatigue; and government austerity policies which caused significant difficulties in the day-to-day staffing of the prison. This article then turns to practitioner responses to the re-designation, finding that practitioners interpreted resettlement in two limited ways: top-down managerial attempts to instil a wider resettlement culture into the prison, and resistance from prison officers who felt unwilling or unable to expand their roles beyond custodial and security concerns. This article concludes by outlining how this set of inter-related barriers frustrated staff and prisoners alike, eroding a sense of hope and purpose and impeding true cultural change.



中文翻译:

“努力让它变得重要”:将重新安置文化融入“当地”监狱的挑战

作为转型康复的一部分改革之后,英格兰和威尔士的 70 所“地方”监狱被重新指定为安置监狱,以便为短期服刑者提供额外的全程支持。本文通过对一个案例研究移民监狱的工作人员和囚犯的访谈,考虑在当地监狱实施移民文化所涉及的挑战。调查结果首先概述了阻碍监狱安置状况的因素;其中包括试图在监狱中实施更广泛的重新安置任务与履行更长期的核心机构职责之间的紧张关系;监狱人口的规模和流失;由变化疲劳引起的广泛的冷漠;政府的紧缩政策给监狱的日常人员配备造成了重大困难。然后,本文转向从业者对重新指定的回应,发现从业者以两种有限的方式解释重新安置:自上而下的管理尝试向监狱灌输更广泛的安置文化,以及感到不愿意或无法扩大的监狱官员的抵制他们的角色超出了监管和安全问题。本文最后概述了这一系列相互关联的障碍如何让工作人员和囚犯都感到沮丧,侵蚀希望和目标感并阻碍真正的文化变革。以及不愿或无法将其角色扩展到羁押和安全问题之外的监狱官员的抵制。本文最后概述了这一系列相互关联的障碍如何让工作人员和囚犯都感到沮丧,侵蚀希望和目标感并阻碍真正的文化变革。以及不愿或无法将其角色扩展到羁押和安全问题之外的监狱官员的抵制。本文最后概述了这一系列相互关联的障碍如何让工作人员和囚犯都感到沮丧,侵蚀希望和目标感并阻碍真正的文化变革。

更新日期:2021-08-15
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