Overcrowding, understaffing, violence, why would anyone want to work in a prison.

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With overcrowding, understaffing and rising levels of violence, why would anyone want to work in a prison?

ITV News was given rare and exclusive access to new recruits working on the frontline in the country’s most notorious prisons.

Officer Brown, 23, is on an early shift at HMP Belmarsh, a maximum-security male prison in South East London with a fearsome reputation, housing 700 inmates from terrorists to sex offenders.