Prisons, Prison Officers and Prisoners' Families, 2021

The Families – Inside Prison and Out project at the University of Strathclyde involved research with prison officers in Scotland whose roles involved working with, or related to, families of people in prison. The project ran from October 2020 – December 2021 and the research took place between April and September 2021, involving ten semi-structured interviews with prison officers working across five prisons in Scotland. These prisons held male and female prisoners, young people, and those serving short, long and life sentences as well as the open estate. The interviews explored the prison officers' understanding and operationalisation of the Scottish Prison Service Family Strategy 2017-2022.