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and peace and quiet may also refer to being organized in terms of having enough personnel on the floor and having at your disposal all the materials required to run the daily programs effectively (functioning showers, kitchen equipment, sufficient cleaning material, access to detainee files, being able to reach other in-house personnel when needed, etcetera). In both instances, the value orientations of task effectiveness have a short-term focus. They refer to managing concrete tasks in the prison officer’s daily work context. As such, task effectiveness means short-term effectiveness and contrasts with the perspective of the reintegration category that centers on contributing ultimately to long term (partially post-)detention effects. 2.7.3 Patterns of Value Prioritization Among Prison Officers Table 2.2 unequivocally shows that, overall, the three values of humanity, security and reintegration are referred to most frequently by respondents, in that order: together, the 18 respondents mentioned variations of these values 45, 26 and 24 times respectively. Although prioritization of these values differs slightly depending on the respondent, these three values are remarkably recurrent in each respondent’s listing of the ideal values of public craftsmanship. The prison officials interviewed give elaborate accounts of the importance of humanity (160 coded segments), reintegration (57 coded segments), security (44 coded segments) and task effectiveness (34 coded segments), meaning that they gave numerous examples of how and why these values mattered in the daily practice of their work. This is confirmed when accounting for the mutual positioning of these values. No fewer than 17 out of 18 respondents mentioned humanity as an ideal value: it was coded in the top 3 of all of these 17, and 13 respondents even gave it as their number one top priority value. Humanity orientations by far outnumber the others, which indicates that respondents clearly find humanity the most important value that the ‘good’ prison official ought to adhere to. Reintegration and security vie for second place, with no definite winner. Reintegration recurred as an ideal value among 15 out of 18 respondents, and for 11 of them it was in their top 3. Security was mentioned as an ideal value by 14 out of 18 respondents, and again for 11 of them, coded in their top 3. When looking at values coded number one, security related orientations were coded as the most important quality 4 times, and reintegration orientations only once. The only exception to the pattern is task effectiveness, the value category representing the prison official’s ability and – perhaps even more so – opportunity to get daily tasks done. This contains as many as 34 coded segments but occupies a far less prominent spot in the 56 Chapter 2