Staff inexperience has been linked to problems across the prison estate - and FactCheck finds the number of experienced prison officers has fallen by 40 per cent since 2010.
into Wandsworth found “chaos” in the prison, and attributed some of the problems to staff inexperience.And the report said that “inexperience across every grade of operational staff” was preventing them from “bringing about much needed change” and sustaining progress.
In 2010, the vast majority – around 80 per cent – of prison officers had more than five years of experience on the job.Prison staffing since 2010A Voluntary Early Departure Scheme in those years sawfrom 2014, for example, paint a stark picture – just 45 new officers were hired that year, while almost 3,000 left the service.
And the lack of recruitment in the early 2010s means that many would-be officers, who could by now have over ten years of experience, simply don’t exist.A recent justice inspectorate
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