Foley Gillian, Siqueira Cassiano Marcella, Ricciardelli Rosemary, Gacek James
Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, Canada.
The University of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
Crim Justice Policy Rev. 2024 Aug;35(4):216-240. doi: 10.1177/08874034241268986. Epub 2024 Jul 31.
Since December 2017, Canada's federal correctional system provides prisoners the opportunity to be assigned to living units according to their self-identified gender. Still organized around sex, conceptually and spatially, prison policies and procedures surrounding transgender prisoners require navigation to adhere to the rights of all prisoners. Based on interviews conducted between October 2019 and October 2021 with 74 correctional officers (COs) from the Canadian federal prison system, we discuss how correctional officers view and operationalize Canada's transgender policy to understand its unintended consequences for both prisoners and prison staff. Unintended consequences revolve around the potential risk for prisoner victimization, prisoner pregnancy, lack of adequate housing, strip search complications, officers' fear of being labeled transphobic, and uncertainty and discretion; all having effects on staff wellness. The policy, although well-intended, may potentially compromise prisoner safety, making correctional work even more stressful.
自2017年12月以来，加拿大联邦惩教系统为囚犯提供了根据其自我认定的性别被分配到居住单元的机会。监狱围绕性别在概念和空间上仍有组织，围绕跨性别囚犯的监狱政策和程序需要在遵循所有囚犯权利的情况下进行操作。基于2019年10月至2021年10月期间对加拿大联邦监狱系统的74名惩教官员进行的访谈，我们讨论了惩教官员如何看待和实施加拿大的跨性别政策，以了解其对囚犯和监狱工作人员产生的意外后果。意外后果围绕着囚犯受侵害的潜在风险、囚犯怀孕、住房不足、脱衣搜查并发症、官员担心被贴上恐跨标签以及不确定性和自由裁量权；所有这些都对工作人员的健康产生影响。该政策虽然初衷良好，但可能会潜在地危及囚犯安全，使惩教工作压力更大。
