The Israeli Prison Service recruits to its ranks the finest professionals, and ceaselessly operates in order to promote its staff.

The organization includes a large variety of professional roles, from the security guards, through the security officers, professional officers from therapeutic fields, unique fields, and until the high commanders that are that senior chain of command in the organization.

The staff work at the ISP is interesting, and in incorporates security and therapeutic activities.  The staff's sensitivity to the needs of the various prisoners populations (drug addicts, prisoners that require special protection, youth, women, sex offenders, prisoners with histories of family violence) contributes to the diminishment of violence and the discovery of appropriate human solutions.

The organization enables his guards and his officers various promotions paths that pose challenges and enable them to experience different fields. The staff members take an active part in conferences, academic studies and professional courses, through which they impart their professional knowledge, acquire new skills and are exposed to advanced perceptions.

The IPS believes in its staff's human potential and in its importance, and makes it its mission to nurture them, while taking into account different needs.

Various planning and development processes focus on different aspects with regards to the human resource – selection, drafting, training, assessing employees, enrichment, wellbeing etc.

Additional processes deal with the development of professional tools and work methods in order to create an effective and quality work process, such as advanced computing systems and the use of cutting-edge technology.

Developing the human resource as a value and as a path is significant for the development of the organization and achieving its goals and missions in the best possible manner.