Hester Paanakker

149 this overall demotivation for the realization of intrinsic values, prison officers are increasingly moved around, both within and between facilities. Every morning when we come in we have to wait and see where we have to go and that is extremely frustrating. Especially because we are expected to have our mentor conversation with detainees and fill out our reports, but if I am on another location or at another detainee unit two or three times every week, I cannot possibly make all of that work out . (Prison officer 4, facility 1) Rather than a lack of motivation, workplace rotation represents a lack of ability to optimize the intrinsic values of humanity, security, reintegration, and task effectiveness. Respondents explain how prison officers need to be able to invest in relationships with detainees in order to realize these core values. Only by monitoring detainees’ behavior and entering into personal dialogues with them, are prison officers able to gain their trust, detect underlying tensions and problems, and offer tailor-made treatments. My prison officer says: that’s all good, but it has been three days now working with a stranger and you expect me to do six or seven mentor conversations”. “Yes that is what I expect.” “You are mental”. And I understand why he says that . (Middle manager 1, facility 2) If prison officers do not get to work with the inmates and colleagues they know, they are less able to find the time to work on inmates’ rehabilitation and to put the detainee at the center of humane treatment. Having less insight into the peculiarities of the detainee’s background and behavior also limits their ability to write meaningful reports about inmates’ development, and hence also undermines the task effectiveness of the prison worker. Finally, workplace rotation may endanger the core value of security. A quote from a prison worker: We have too few people to do what needs to be done. In the morning they deploy you to a detainee unit where you have never been, with someone who also has never been there, and you just have to cope and be OK. But you also need to report on that detainee unit, and you do not have time for that. Look at it this way: you are on the floor, it is the end of recreation, you have to lock in 12 men, and you really do not have a clue who is 149 The Effect of Value Divergence