Prison officers are set up to fail – and it all starts with recruitment

Prison officers are set up to fail – and it all starts with recruitment

What do you think it takes to be a prison officer? According to a new report published by the House of Lords, not much.It turns out that the entire recruitment process to become a prison officer is online. And not just that; there is no interview. Given the environments these applicants could go on to work in, and the people they will be tasked with supervising, such lack of formalised assessment is staggering.The inquiry that led to the report,…