Community-engaged prison-based research in a pandemic: the efficacy of summative content analysis for understanding prison culture and climate

Canada, Kelli E.; Huebner, Beth M.; Garcia-Hallett, Janet; Givens, Ashley; Inzana, Victoria; Taylor, Elizabeth; Peters, Clark M.

doi:10.1080/0735648x.2022.2072364

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“…In turn, the Westchester County Department of Correction, a county jail in New York State, reported a significant increase in the number of calls from the facility pre-pandemic (1,700) compared to during the pandemic (4,000) (Collica-Cox & Molina, 2020). Findings from self-report surveys of incarcerated individuals within a Midwestern mediumsecurity facility indicate that inmates believe such visitation keeps them out of trouble and connected to their support systems (Canada et al, 2022). As prisons and jails return to pre-pandemic operations, correctional institutions, and the people they house, may be better served by continuing to make use of technology, such as video conferencing, to facilitate visitation beyond face-to-face or telephone communications.…”

Section: The Justice Apparatus During Covidmentioning

confidence: 99%

COVID, Crime & Criminal Justice: Affirming the Call for System Reform Research

Jossie

Blumstein²,

Miller³

2022

Am J Crim Just

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Early into the COVID-19 pandemic, Miller & Blumstein (2020) outlined a theoretical research program (TRP) oriented around themes of contagion control and containment, legal amnesty, system leniency, nonenforcement, and tele-justice. Here, two and a half years later, these lingering themes are revisited to advocate for empirical research informing criminal justice system reform. The pandemic created rare natural experiment research conditions that enable unique and potentially valuable insights on necessitated innovations that may indicate future justice practices and policies. Given the sweeping effects of the shutdown, examples are numerous ranging from staffing analyses to estimate agencies' personnel needs to ensure that basic public safety functions can be met after early retirements and resignations from virus risk and anti-police sentiment, the use of virtual communication in various legal proceedings at arrest, incarceration, and release junctures, and, especially, the risks versus benefits of early release. In addition to better identifying who should be jailed pre-trial, prioritization of calls for service, triaging of court cases, and hygiene and sanitation issues within facilities are other important examples central to a COVID and crime TRP. Attending research could demonstrate the utility of normative operations and identify shortfalls to be addressed during anomic conditions prior to another shutdown or similar event and present, through comparison of innovative and traditional derived outcomes, system reform and improvement opportunities. By seizing upon rare data made possible by natural experimental COVID generated conditions, researchers can meaningfully investigate the ongoing applicability of justice system adaptations mandated by the pandemic in terms of effectiveness and efficiency toward the interrelated goals of evidence-based practice discovery and justice reform.

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Section: The Justice Apparatus During Covidmentioning

confidence: 99%

COVID, Crime & Criminal Justice: Affirming the Call for System Reform Research

Jossie

Blumstein²,

Miller³

2022

Am J Crim Just

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The New Age Worker: Morale and Strain Among Staff During a Correctional Staffing Crisis

Spanoudakis,

Huebner,

Garcia-Hallett

et al. 2024

Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice

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Correctional institutions have historically faced challenges in hiring and maintaining a workforce, which only increased during the COVID-19 pandemic. Considerable turnover in staff in recent years has led some states to lower the age of hiring eligibility, which in turn increases the number of new and younger officers on the job. This study explores the challenges and opportunities that the unprecedented change in the workforce in one Midwestern prison has had on workplace morale and strain. This study uses data from semi-structured interviews with a diverse group of correctional employees. We find a considerable disconnect between “new” and “old” correctional officers and offer policy solutions for future staffing practices.

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Community-engaged prison-based research in a pandemic: the efficacy of summative content analysis for understanding prison culture and climate

Cited by 2 publications

References 53 publications

COVID, Crime & Criminal Justice: Affirming the Call for System Reform Research

COVID, Crime & Criminal Justice: Affirming the Call for System Reform Research

The New Age Worker: Morale and Strain Among Staff During a Correctional Staffing Crisis

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