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different to other prisons you have worked in?
• Do you consider this prison a strict or rather a lenient prison? What do
you prefer? What is important in this regard? How does it affect the
relationships between staff and prisoners?
• In a scale from 1-10, how fair do you consider this prison to be?
Example questions for interviews with prisoners
Humane and respectful treatment
• On a scale from 1-10, how do you rate the quality of your relationship
with staff?
• How do prison officers most often address you? Do you feel addressed
in a respectful manner? Can you give an example of when you felt
treated with respect? Do you feel treated with humanity in prison?
What does it mean for you?
• Can you tell us about a situation in prison in which you felt heard, seen
and treated as an individual?
• Do you get along with officers in your department? Do you know the
names of staff members?
• Does anybody in the prison really know you as a person, or want to get
to know you?
• If you could change one thing about how prison staff treats prisoners,
what would it be?
• On a scale from 1-10, how much do you feel that ‘things get done’ in
this prison?
• Are there situations in which staff just does not react to your questions
and simply looks away?
• What makes a good prison guard?
• Here in this prison, do you feel there is a strong culture of ‘them
against us’ between prisoners and staff?
• Have you heard racist comments towards foreign prisoners?
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