2023/10/05 by Jennifer Turner, Rosemary Ricciardelli, James Gacek
Health Professions · Psychology · Social Sciences · #Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis #Healthcare Decision-Making and Restraints #Homelessness and Social Issues
paper · doi:10.1177/00328855231200635
crossref issued 2023/10/05 · crossref published 2023/10/05 · crossref published-online 2023/10/05 · openalex publication_date 2023/10/05 · crossref created 2023/10/05 · crossref published-print 2023/11/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · crossref deposited 2026/05/01 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/29 · crossref indexed 2026/07/29
This article highlights Canadian federal correctional officers’ (COs) sensory engagements with their workplace to reveal how, in particular, air quality and sound quality generate physical feelings that create health and wellness concerns. These “pains of employment” support calls to improve prison space. However, these sensations conflate with perceptions of space, which infer that prisoners, not infrastructure, create poor environments. Such perceptions seemingly influence COs’ approaches to prisoner management. Accordingly, the physical quality of prison air and sound not only shapes CO constructions of health and wellness, but also has the potential to influence how they discharge their role.