Prison whistle-blowers have claimed cuts to staff numbers and falling training standards have led to rising rates of inappropriate relationships between prison wardens and lags
Female prison wardens having sex with inmates because inexperienced staff are being put in jails without being trained on how to reject the advances of pent-up male prisoners, a whistleblower claims.
Ruth Shmylo was working as a prison officer at HMP Parc in Bridgend, South Wales, when an inmate initiated phone sex with her. The prisoner, Harri Pullen, was a convicted drug dealer serving a five-year sentence. Shmylo, 26, knew of his links to organised crime and feared she would risk “repercussions” if she reported his behaviour, Cardiff Crown Court heard last month. She repeatedly asked him to stop the phone sex, which she viewed as sexual harassment.
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