"Everything has changed": detention officer roles and recreation time changes due to COVID-19 policies at a Southwest County Jail.
"Everything has changed": detention officer roles and recreation time changes due to COVID-19 policies at a Southwest County Jail.
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10.1186/s40352-022-00181-x
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2022-06-04
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3.5
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监狱对新冠肺炎疫情的应对迫使看守所官员调整了他们在个人被监禁期间的监禁和照顾方式。监禁受到影响的一个方面是拘留官员的角色。这项研究项目的目的是确定新冠肺炎疫情如何影响西南部县监狱看守所官员的一般职责。拘留官员是通过电子邮件招募的，参加了2020年10月至12月的在线问卷调查。参与者回答了关于新冠肺炎疫情如何影响他们的工作职责的利克特量表和开放式问题。使用描述性统计和专题分析来确定答复中的主题和模式。在24名看守所官员中，87%的人表示同意新冠肺炎疫情极大地改变了中纪委看守所看守人员的职责。讨论最多的变化是对新入狱的人引入了为期14天的隔离程序。14天的隔离增加了拘留人员的工作量。监狱里应对新冠肺炎疫情可能会对拘留人员的工作职责产生意想不到的负面后果。监狱当前和未来的大流行应对战略将受益于考虑工作人员的观点，因为它们直接受到已实施的新冠肺炎应对战略的影响。文中还讨论了政策含义。
The COVID-19 pandemic responses in jails have forced detention officers to adjust how they approach the confinement and care of individuals while they are incarcerated. One aspect of incarceration affected was detention officers’ roles. The aims of this research project were to determine how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected the general duties of detention officers at a Southwest County Jail. Detention officers were recruited via email to participate in an online questionnaire from October to December 2020. Participants answered Likert scale and open-ended questions regarding how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected their job duties. Descriptive statistics and thematic analysis were used to identify themes and patterns in the responses. Among 24 detention officers, 87% indicated agreement that the COVID-19 pandemic has significantly changed the duties of detention officers at CCDF. The most discussed change was the introduction of a 14-day quarantine process for newly incarcerated individuals. The 14-day quarantine increased the workload of detention officers. The COVID-19 pandemic responses in jail may have unintended negative consequences for the job duties of detention officers. Current and future pandemic response strategies in jails would benefit from taking staff perspectives into consideration as they are directly impacted by the COVID-19 response strategies put into place. Policy implications are discussed.