28 August 2020
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7 February 2020
A prison officer who had a behind bars sexual relationship with notorious gangster Curtis “Cocky” Warren and got a tattoo of his name has been jailed for two years. Stephanie Smithwhite, 40, denied cutting a hole in the trousers of her prison uniform was for a sexual purpose, but the sentencing judge said it was hard to […]
26 November 2019
The Ministry of Justice have confirmed a lack of promotion prospects for officers at HMP Wymott. In promotion tables, both nationally (England only) and for HMP Wymott alone disclosed by the MOJ today, the figures shows that between 2013 and 2017/18 a total of 3,404 prison officers were promoted as a total in Bands 3 […]
12 October 2019
A prison officer who had sex in a cleaning cupboard with a murderer serving a life sentence at a maximum security prison has been jailed for 12 months. Married Rachel Welburn, 39, started an 18-month relationship with killer Daniel Crompton after she became his designated personal officer at Frankland Prison, which houses some of the worst criminals in the country. Judge […]
3 September 2019
A prison officer has been stabbed in an incident at a jail for young offenders. The staff member at HMP/YOI Swinfen Hall was attacked on Friday, but it is understood the injuries were not serious and they were able to leave hospital later that day. Security has been increased as well as searches, since the incident, and […]
1 August 2014
A prison officer had part of his ear bitten off by an inmate during an attack at Nottingham Prison. Nottinghamshire Police said it was called to HMP Nottingham just before 9.30am on Wednesday to reports that an officer had been assaulted by an inmate. The officer was taken to Queen’s Medical Centre for treatment. The […]
16 April 2014
The number of serious assaults on prison officers by offenders has risen significantly under the coalition prompting one prisons expert to predict our prisons are on the verge of serious unrest. A total of 543 assaults by prisoners on officers in jails were referred to the police in 2012, a 45% rise from the 374 […]
28 January 2014
A prison officer has been jailed after she enjoyed a secret lesbian romance with an inmate serving life for murder in a Holloway Prison. Sophia King-Chinnery, 25, embarked on a relationship with Sarah Anderson after she was locked up at the notorious jail in Parkhurst Road for a minimum of 15 years for stabbing a […]
23 January 2014
Britain’s biggest privately-run jail downplayed a ‘full scale riot’ which saw inmates take over an entire wing and booby-trap the doorways, a prison officer has claimed – causing one commentator to say that if true G4S should lose all their prison contracts. Prisoners were in a nine-hour stand-off with guards earlier this month at the […]
26 November 2013
The back-from-the-dead canoe fraudster, former Holme House prison officer John Darwin (left), from Hartlepool, is facing a return to prison after he left the UK without permission to meet a statuesque Ukrainian in a mini-skirt. The 63-year-old was pictured in The Sun on a date with a blonde woman in her 20s in the town […]
6 June 2013
A former prison officer was arrested today by detectives investigating alleged corrupt payments to public officials, police said. The 39-year-old man was arrested at his home in Waltham Forest, north-east London, at about 6am on suspicion of misconduct in a public office and corruption, Scotland Yard said. He is the 66th person arrested under Operation […]