ABSTRACT
Given the correction officer’s general feelings of powerlessness, isolation and estrangement from his workplace, it is not surprising that many officers express dissatisfaction with the prison administration’s treatment of officers. Officer descriptions of their treatment by the prison administration are strikingly similar to those of inmates. “Infantilization” and “dehumanization” are two themes cen tral to the officers’ perception of administrative attitudes toward officers:
We are professionals, not children. We’re men, not complete idiots. Sometimes we’re treated like children or mental defectives.
