Overview
- Placements begin in December across the state, with costs put at a mid–five‑figure euro sum.
- Fifteen-second, sound-off videos depict duties such as infirmary work, corridor checks, and a simulated cell entry using shields and helmets.
- The campaign promotes entry into the General Custodial Service (AVD), the largest occupational group in the prison system.
- Justice Minister Benjamin Limbach called the approach a creative way to reach candidates where they already are.
- At the start of the year, about 700 of roughly 9,600 prison posts in NRW were vacant, according to previously cited ministry figures.