“…In England and Wales, a key report published in 2014 found that VICs constituted around 7% of the prisoner population (HM Inspectorate of Prisons, 2014), making them the single largest occupational group (Wainwright et al., 2017, p.741). This much‐cited statistic justifiably underpinned extensive subsequent research which found that the nature of their offences, the circumstances of their incarceration, the challenges they face in prison, and their likelihood of reoffending all seem to be defined to a greater or lesser extent by this prior military experience (e.g., Albertson, Banks & Murray, 2017; Albertson, Irving & Best, 2015; Fossey et al., 2017; MacManus & Wood, 2017; Phillips, 2020). By comparison, and despite a now extensive body of research into prison staff and prison management, we know very little about how many prison staff are ex‐military.…”