Who Can Apply
All prisoners must be deemed by the prison to be eligible for working in a public area and have been screened and vetted by internal security. We also have our own criteria to ensure that the students are suitable and have volunteered to be trained.
Our criteria states students must:
- be in good health and able to undertake active work.
- be sentenced. If there are outstanding charges these will be considered on an individual basis. No remand prisoners will be considered.
- be cleared by security and categorised as B,C or D.
- have 6–18 months left to serve on their sentence.
- not be of any interest to immigration or have any active deportation cases.
- be motivated to train and work in the catering trade.
- be aged 20 and over.
- have no escape/abscond/security/illegal drug concerns for the past 3 months.
- have no violence or arson offences in the last 12 months.
- have no SRU (Security & Reintegration Unit) history in the past 4 months.
- have no history at all of kidnapping or hostage taking.
