title: Ukrainian Prison Officers and Their Power
abstract: Abstract Finding research on prison officers that does not emphasise their importance—even centrality—to prisons’ daily operation and to the implementation of prison ambition more generally proves almost impossible. Even so, depending on jurisdiction, uniformed prison staff’s portrayals range from ‘czars and gods’ to disempowered and hectored conductors of penal power that merely flows through them. Power lies at the heart of prison—prison is about power . In the current chapter, drawing on the 
journal: Palgrave studies in prisons and penology