Our Approach

At Unlocked Graduates, our mission is to develop outstanding leaders to break cycles of reoffending in prison and throughout society. We believe the way that you do that is by challenging, recruiting and training ambitious graduates to become outstanding prison officers and high-performing leaders.

Our unique approach to training and supporting outstanding prison officers on our award-winning, two-year graduate programme is enabling our participants to drive culture change in their prisons. We are creating a generation of outstanding leaders who believe that rehabilitation is possible.

Addressing the problem

Unlocked’s vision is a prison system where every prisoner receives the support that they need to flourish and desist from crime.

Our 2023-2026 strategy reflects on everything we have learnt since we were founded in 2016 and outlines the steps required to build the prison system we need. With this in mind, we are committed to four primary areas of work:

1. Recruit, develop and retain more high-quality graduates as prison officers.
2. Support Ambassadors to progress into operational prison leadership roles.
3. Mainstream our solutions so all prison officers benefit from our research & work.
4. Prove what works in prisons to catalyse whole system change.