How do we stop Prison Guard corruption ?
They’re prison officers, not guards, and actually have more varied jobs than just guarding prisoners. But actually, they do continue to have physical tests and training throughout their careers. Often due to the shortage of prison officers there isn’t always time for these sorts of things, particularly updated training, though it has improved in recent years. For example, all officers working in the juvenile estate (under 18s) must work towards an NVQ. As someone who is not only responsible for security, but for rehabilitiation and to a certain degree for the emotional and physical wellbeing of prisoners in their care, the example you gave is obviously someone who shouldn’t be working in the prison service. I’m disgusted too that he’s in an important position. If you had any evidence that he’d been involved in any illegal activities, I’d say report him to the police. While prison officers jobs are not easy, and many aspects can conflict with others, and they have problems with limited
