11 h. ago Female prison officer who had illicit relationship with gangster behind bars and triggered 102 corruption alerts in just five months is jailed

Megann Gibson, 26, became embroiled in a forbidden relationship with dangerous inmate Ryan Horan while working at Wealstun Prison near Wetherby, West Yorkshire.

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25 h. ago Female prison officer, 46, admits to performing sex act on an inmate

Rebecca Pinckard, 46, of Newmarket in Suffolk, was in a relationship with the inmate at HMP Highpoint in Stradishall between April and July 2024.

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2 w. ago Female prison officer, 29, faces jail after admitting having an 'inappropriate relationship' with an inmate

Zoe Oldham, 29, appeared at Liverpool Crown Court to plead guilty to charges of misconduct in a public office during her service at HMP Risley in Warrington.

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2 w. ago Female prison officer, 31, pleads guilty to having illicit relationship with male inmate

Sarah Barnett, 31, from Rugeley in Staffordshire and who worked at HMP Dovegate in nearby Uttoxeter, faces a possible jail term when sentenced on January 7.

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2 w. ago She was a prison officer. He was a convicted rapist. How did she fall for him?

Cherrie-Ann Austin-Saddington was working in a men’s prison when she began a relationship with an inmate that would turn her, too, into a criminal. How do some of the most dangerous men in Britain get what they want – even behind bars?There was a moment in the summer of 2022 when 26-year-old Cherrie-Ann Austin-Saddington, a female prison officer in a men’s jail, had to make a choice. She was on her wing at HMP The Verne in Dorset, in the day room where inmates go to read books and newspapers, when a prisoner called Bradley Trengrove handed her a magazine. Concealed within its pages was a slip of paper with a number written on it – the number of his secret, illicit mobile phone. Under the watchful eye of the prison’s security cameras, Austin-Saddington had to decide what to do next.“I was thinking, do I report it? Do I not report it?” she says. “I wasn’t thinking, I’ll text him – that wasn’t in my head.” But she did not throw the piece of paper away. She kept it, and in the end decid...

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2 w. ago 'I had sordid sex with female prison officer, I don't regret it for a second'

As prison officer Isabelle Dale is found guilty of flings with two serving inmates, former lag Tony Gooch has opened up about his own illicit prison relationship and why he has no regrets

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3 w. ago Female prison officer who had sex with convict lover in jail prayer room and hung framed picture of them together over her bed faces years behind bars

Isabelle Dale, 23, romped with Shahid Sharif, 33, in the worship area at HMP Coldingley as two room mates posted as lookouts, Southwark Crown Court heard.

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