RT Article
T1 Bearing the Neoconservative Burden? Frontline Work in Prisons
JF Social justice
VO 34
IS 3/4
SP 78
OP 97
A1 McElligott, Greg
LA English
YR 2007
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1747157120
AB A study was conducted to examine corrections officers (COs) in the privatized prison sector. Data were obtained from a review of the literature and from interviews with COs at a private prison in Canada. Findings revealed that COs are most accurately viewed as front-line workers under pressure from management initiatives that intensify and de-skill their work, and that COs occupy an exposed part of an increasingly coercive regime. Findings suggest that, despite the support of public and private officials for private “supermax” prisons, the business models used by private companies could make automated surveillance and remote control technologies more dangerous in private hands. Findings imply that technology makes a poor substitute for the skilled work of COs.
K1 Editorials
K1 United States economy -- 2001-2009
K1 Poor people -- United States
K1 Prison Population
K1 Prison Personnel
K1 Prison industries
K1 Conservatism
K1 Canada -- Social policy
K1 Private prison industry
K1 Corrections (Criminal justice administration)
K1 Contracting out
K1 Privatization