The prison officers: working conditions and organizational health in Veneto prisons

Abstract

but also to many other people involved in this social context, the tools to understand and interpret the prison world, a world
that is very complex and various. By this research we wanted to study the organizational health of the prison officers who
work in the nine Veneto’s prison using the Multidimensional Organizational Health Questionnaire (MOHQ) (416 respondents).
The results of this study highlighted how the category of the prison, together with some other variables such as the
rank of the officers, their role in the institute, the length of their service and the typology of their working hour, can influence
their working conditions.