Female jail officer jailed after sharing X-rated texts with three prisoners

A feminine jail officer has been jailed after exchanging saucy messages with three prisoners.

Sarah Williams, 39, “fell for the charms of these prisoners” in keeping with defence solicitor Matthew O’Neill.

Liverpool Crown Court heard how Williams failed to inform her bosses that the three prisoners had cell phones of their cells at HMP Altcourse in Liverpool, Manchester Evening News studies.

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Instead she swapped 1000’s of texts and calls with them, together with messages of an specific nature. These messages didn’t lead to “physical sexual contact between [her] and any of the three men”, Judge Denis Watson KC identified.

The mum-of-three additionally illegally searched the jail database for one of many prisoners, to search out out at which jail one other particular person was being held. Judge Watson stated this request, whether or not about an affiliate or rival of the lag, was “not benign”.

The courtroom additionally heard how Williams transferred cash to 1 inmate after he was moved to a jail in Manchester.

Williams was arrested on July 8, 2020, after HMP Altcourse obtained info suggesting she was concerned in relationships with a number of prisoners. She went on to plead responsible to 3 counts of misconduct in public workplace and one depend of inflicting a pc to carry out a perform with intent to safe unauthorised entry to knowledge.

Jailing her for 18 months earlier this week, Judge Watson stated: “You sought approval having started this job, not from colleagues and fellow prison officers, but from inmates. Having done so you compromised your position and everyone else’s in terms of safety on the wing and you allowed three inmates with serious organised crime connections effectively unrestricted contact with their criminal associates.”

Mr O’Neill stated Williams was thought to have a persona dysfunction “which may have impaired her decision making”.

Detective Chief Inspector Chris McClellan from the North-West Regional Organised Crime Unit stated: “Relationships between prison staff and inmates greatly undermines and destabilises the prison regime. Sarah Williams became romantically involved with these prisoners just a short time after joining the prison service.

“Despite finishing her preliminary coaching which included corruption prevention inputs, she constantly broke the legislation by beginning a number of relationships with inmates, taking mobiles telephones into jail, and for passing delicate info onto these inmates that she had unlawfully obtained from jail IT programs.

“The overwhelming majority of prison staff carry out their duties to the highest standards, however the minority who do engage in inappropriate behaviour will be investigated and the appropriate action taken. We want to urge prison staff to be aware of any warning signs and to report any type of inappropriate behaviour so that we can take action to bring them to justice.”

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