Female jail guard suspended over sexual relationship with convict

A feminine jail guard who allegedly had a sexual relationship with a convict has been suspended. 

The 20-year-old girl is claimed to have engaged in ‘heavy petting’ with a intercourse offender in HMP Moorland in Doncaster, South Yorkshire, in response to jail officers. 

A supply advised the Telegraph that the pair had additionally exchanged cellular numbers which is a breach of jail safety.

An investigation has been launched by the jail’s counter-corruption unit. It offers with potential ‘harmful’ behaviour that emerges between prisoners and workers.

Guards discovered responsible of inappropriate relationships with convicts could be jailed for misconduct in public workplace, which carries a most sentence of life imprisonment.

A Ministry of Justice spokesperson mentioned: ‘We take all allegations of wrongdoing extraordinarily severely however it could be inappropriate to remark additional on a reside investigation.’ 

The 20-year-old girl is claimed to have engaged in ‘heavy petting’ with a intercourse offender in HMP Moorland in Doncaster, South Yorkshire, in response to jail officers

In 2019, the jail confronted one other scandal after a married substance misuse employee Tracey Storey, 54, (pictured) was busted for having telephone ‘intercourse chats’ with an inmate

In 2019, the jail confronted one other scandal after a married substance misuse employee Tracey Storey, 54, was busted for having telephone ‘intercourse chats’ with an inmate.

Guards recognised her voice whereas monitoring the prisoner Nicholas Millward’s calls.

The inmate known as her private telephone 9 instances between October and December 2019, and listed her private quantity below the title of his ex-partner, a court docket heard in 2020.

He was later transferred from HMP Moorland to HMP Leeds and Ms Storey misplaced her job. She now works in a pharmacy.

Iryna Durham, 39, wrote love letters to an inmate at HMP Moorland for 5 months earlier than their affair was found.

Her husband found the letters in 2019 and reported her to the authorities. 

The mom, who admitted misconduct in public workplace, was handed a four-month sentence, suspended for a yr. 

She was made to finish 10 days of rehabilitation exercise necessities and do 200 hours of unpaid work. 

Last yr, the variety of officers caught having affairs with inmates hit a document excessive, 36 guards have been sacked for the offence since 2019. 

Meanwhile, 18 feminine workers HMP Berwyn in north Wales had been discovered to have had relationships with inmates since 2017, when the jail first opened its doorways.

A guard at Maidstone Prison had a child with an offender after they’d intercourse in his cell. She acquired a suspended jail time period in 2022.

in 2022, it emerged that chiefs at 1,000-capacity jail HMP Moorland despatched 16 workers to ‘banter workshops’ with equality consultants.

Bosses determined to organise ‘banter workshops’ to make sure jail workers did not inadvertently offend prisoners after the 51 complaints – just below one per week.

Last yr the jail was criticised for treating inmates like residents.

Signs had been put up calling prisoners ‘residents’, in a transfer that was criticised by Justice Secretary, who acknowledged that inmates should now not be known as such ‘politically right’ phrases.