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Photograph by Michael J. Clarke
spring 2024
The ‘Science on the Street’ team in the studio: Chaimaa Hossaini, BS ’23, Studio 73 Assistant Manager Patrick Lys, Biology Professor Eugenia Gold, and Kostas Winslow, Class of 2026.
Suffolk University Sociology & Criminal Justice Assistant Professor Carlos Monteiro (above) has received a nearly $1 million grant from the National Institute of Justice to implement and assess organizational change in the Massachusetts Department of Corrections. Monteiro’s work is part of a study designed to improve the health and well-being of correctional officers by shifting deeply ingrained occupational policies and department procedures.
The four-year study will be conducted in partnership with the Massachusetts Department of Correction and the Massachusetts Correctional Officers Federated Union, and will build upon Monteiro’s previous research studying correctional officer health and well-being.
“We contend that correction work as currently structured with its over-reliance on seniority and hierarchical decision making, uncompromising shiftwork schedules, forced overtime, and obscure disciplinary processes elicits and sustains a subculture that negatively affects officers’ well-being,” Monteiro said.
By Gillian Smith
By Gillian Smith