The postgraduate programme, which began in London and the southeast, and was extended to the youth secure estate, will now be rolled out across the north of England from September 2019.
The 36 trainees are the first ever cohort to have completed the two-year scheme run by Unlocked Graduates, which the Ministry of Justice is hailing as success.
As part of the masters degree course, while working full-time on the prison frontline alongside experienced officers, trainees focus on reform.
They are reported to have made a "thousand tiny differences" and even to have saved lives as a result of their interventions.
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