A place whereby rules are rules but the company will expect you to break almost all the standard operating procedures every day. The place is run with very few staff, far fewer than what is required to run to procedures set out, meaning safety of staff is cut short, safety of prisoners cut short. You are expected to short cut everything including own safety constantly. If something bad happens, and it does (due to lack of staff), then staff become the scapegoat when the MOJ investigate. It's corrupt, not the staff on the ground, but the higher management. Really falls short on staff safety. For example, if a prisoner attacks and injured a member of staff, expect to be put on investigation and they will find fault in what happened to that member of staff. That staff member will be curtailed, not assisted in any way.
Inspections are usually known about in advance, somehow the staff come from the magic staff tree for that one day of the inspection, but a day after half the staff are on site. How do they know in advance?
Please if you do it, remember the company will drop you like a ton of bricks to suit themselves. You won't be assisted throughout and you will be expected to cut corners every day. I'm glad I left before something terrible happened to myself or a someone else. It will happen, something bad will happen and the company no doubt will seek to blame the poor officers on the ground and paint them in a bad light, yet the company set you up to fail. They got the contract wrong and must still make a profit.
