In Alexandra Hall’s book, Border Watch: Cultures of Immigration, Detention and Control, Relationships are complex and ever changing within Locksdon Immigration Removal Centre (IRC) . Whether it be between guards, detainees, or guards and detainees, each relationship is complicated and differs between guards and their relations with each other, and the guards and the lack of bond between them and the detainees. It has a big effect on day to day life for everyone.
Officers amongst themselves have plenty of time to socialize with each other. Forming bonds, some bound by loyalty and experience, others fun and gossip. Relationships between guards are just as complex as relations between guards and detainees. The strongest bonds between guards
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A guard named Drew “had fallen out with an officer Frank (once a good friend) because Frank had ‘wimped out’ on him. He had invited Frank on a walking holiday with several ex-army friends, and Frank had given up on a tough day’s walking, insisting they turn back, embarrassing Drew. Frank had demonstrated several contemptible qualities: lack of perseverance, lack of loyalty (to Drew in front of his friends) and laziness” (65)⁴. This shows how important these attributes are to the relationships between guards, and if someone is slacking in one of these attributes, they could let others down on the job, risking lives. Without loyalty and perseverance they slack in their friendships made in IRC …show more content…
It shows who is loyal to who and makes the days more interesting. “Gossip constantly linked and divided people, exploring the limits of what was tolerable and desirable. It was a way of people testing loyalties and staking claims” (70)⁵. Gossip is used as a way of belonging. Someone being talking about knows that other know them, and that they have a reputation, either good or bad they are now connected to the other guards. A person that is gossiping about others can build bonds by talking about someone of common interest and become closer to others that way. Social bonds are important in a place like Locksdon because a guard needs to depend on others to have their back both as a friend and as a fellow guard on the job. It is important to know that they belong to something, and helps get them through their job
After reading Newjack, I clearly appreciate the difficulty, the chaos and the stress of an officers' job. I am less sure how they manage to do it, and I wonder at what cost to their sense of self it has on them. By contrast, with a few well-chosen stories, Conover humanizes individual prisoners: one who has lines from Anne Frank's diary tattooed on his back; a prisoner on the serving line who tries to sneak extra food to his friends; a young, emotionally needy prisoner grasping for attention from anyone, even an officer. As a result, the prisoners are often drawn “with more humanity” than the staff.
Conover begins his investigative journey as he goes through the training required to become a prison guard. The process that each potential guard has to graduate from highly resembles that of which the military uses. Perfectly made beds, matching uniforms, roll calls, shooting practice, and psychological tests are all engrained into the schedules of potential guards. When this realizations strikes the author he says, “It dawned on me that I had reported to boot camp.” The emphasis on uniformity and discipline clearly showed the correlation those who controlled prisons saw between the prisons and warzones. The rhetoric is nearly identical as well, as evidenced by the “sergeant” who states,” The gray uniforms are the god guys, and the green uniforms are ...
who have been arrested and are awaiting trial or who have been sentenced to serve time in jail or prison. The correctional officer’s main focus is to keep the inmate safe and secure, meaning to keeping the inmate safe from hurting themselves and others and also from being injured from other predatory inmates. They have to be consistent in their discipline, if they aren’t they will find themselves really struggling with trying to survive in a day of work. Every day that they walk into work they have to have a positive state of mind and be consistent
Gossip has been known to hurt relationships, damage reputations, and cause other social harms. But can it have any social benefits? In the article “Studies Find That Gossip Isn’t Just Loose Talk”, Alina Tugend argues that certain gossip can have important social functions. She notes that certain gossip can provide people with information about people who might mistreat us. Tugend adds that people have overwhelming urge to gossip about people who they feel have wronged them. However, Tugend notes that some people feel that gossip has no social benefit. Thesis: I found it interesting when the article discusses how certain gossip can make people in a group follow rules and it can protect us from people.
The guards also developed the mentality that they could make the prisoner do what they want and that they were like puppets. The mob mentality of the guards was not taken lightly by the prisoners, that same mob mentality of the guards lead the prisoners to also develop a mob mentality that they wanted to make the guard's jobs as hard as they could by starting a rebellion. In the climax of the film, one guard picks on prisoner 8612 which lead 8612 to reach his limit and attack the guard out of anger, the guard that was attacked acted on sheer instinct and hit prisoner 8612 which broke Phillip Zimbardo’s one and only rule. This lead to an uprising and rebellion from the prisoners, the prisoners all developed a plan to escape and some of the prisoner were even barricading themselves in their own cells. (The Stanford
Prison Guards, also acknowledged as correctional officers, are employees of the government and are responsible for the monitoring the inmates of a jail or prison. People see jails and prisons reenacted on the television, but the way they portray the facilities does not compare to how they are in real life. In television shows, it seems as if the building runs itself. The inmates stay inside the walls, and do whatever they feel like doing. This, however, is not how jails/prisons work. Having correctional officers is crucial for the upkeep of prisons and jails. One of a correctional officer’s main jobs is to validate that all of the inmates are safe and accounted for, and that the prison facilities are hygienic and under control.
At any given time, a single corrections officer, can expect to be outnumbered by upwards of 400 inmates (Conover, 2011). It can be chilling to work in the midst of hundreds of inmates, some of which initiate attacks and inappropriate relationships. However, other issues have impacted the psychological health and physical safety of the staff. Detrimental factors have included heavy workloads, the prisons physical structure, and a lack of support from both peers and superiors. Each workplace issue has been in addition to role problems, specifically role ambiguity and role conflict (Schaufeli & Peeters, 2011). It is believed that anyone of these undesirable facets of prison should be enough to deter the public from attempting to enter such positions, yet the essay attempts to connect the dysfunctional aspects, expanding on why these prison positions are associated with burnout and frustration. In an attempt to do the profession justice, elements that appear to have encouraged individuals to not only join, but also stay, will be explored.
Many different facets compose the makeup of a prison community. One of the main components of the prison culture is the correctional officer. The individuals that are responsible for the security at correctional facilities such as a prison are better known as CO’s or correctional officers. Typically, the higher the security levels of the prison, the lower the ratio of inmates to correctional officers. “State averages of inmates to COs range from about 3.5 to 1 up to 8 to 1 (with national averages of 5.4 to 1 in 2000), but these numbers have to be taken with a grain of salt” (Foster, 2006, p.164). With the aforementioned disparity with the number of COs to inmates naturally safety concerns arise when it comes to keeping both COs and inmates working and living in a safe environment.
On an evolutionary perspective, gossip was developed as a way of maintaining social relationships. Itself, it serves a form of ‘verbal grooming’ which may be similar to ‘social grooming’ (Hummel, 2009) seen in primates. In depth, primates were seen to have groomed other primates ‘far beyond necessity’ (A. Hummel) which would suggest that grooming is a very important aspect of socializing and building bonds in primate life. As humans, gossip facilitates the need for social maintenance. It functions ‘to facilitate the establishment and maintenance of relationships…reinforcing soc...
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Organizational culture is completely prevalent within law enforcement. Law enforcement develop’s this band of brotherhood that can only be understood amongst the individual’s in that culture. This culture shares value, goals and lifestyles, which is not represented by society and only shared by fellow officers. Even though this organizational culture can at times be defined as bias, because it is exclusionary of non-law enforcement personnel, it can be looked at as a positive for the members within that culture. For instance, the job of a police officer can be arduous and being able to have an outlet of like-minded officer’s help’s other officer’s deal with the anxiety and emotional stress that comes along with the job. This type of camaraderie
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Using the social learning theory, a recent study found that associating with deviant officers had a major effect on officers committing deviant behavior that resulted in citizen complaints. According to researchers, “officers’ vulnerable to organizational subcultures makes differential peer associations imperative, as they may enable deviant behavior by spreading the beliefs, values, definitions, and manners of expression that depart from satisfactory behavior” (Chappell & Piquero, 2004, p. 93). Officers typically approach the job in hopes of making an impact on the community and protecting citizens. It is their interaction with other officers who are involved in defiant behavior that typically affects those officers who previously followed
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