Prison officers deal drugs and ask inmates for sex, BBC told

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/czd5r3m6rz6o

by Ivashkin

12 comments

  1. > ask inmates for sex

    It’s good that they ask.
    I guess this is that “policing with consent” concept.

    Very important, consent.

  2. The prison service is fucked tbh.

    I was a prison officer for a short time in order to get into a different public sector role.

    The pay is shocking. The conditions are shocking.

    It’s no surprise at all they are struggling to fill vacancies and they are having to fill them with a lower standard of staff.

    I worked in a CAT A prison. Starting wage was just over 20k as a prison officer.

    Pension is shit now. And you have little to no support in terms of the damage working in a role like that can do to you.

    An example of this was a prison officer who was sacked because he couldn’t work in the role anymore after being stabbed almost to death.

    He tried to return but couldn’t do the role. They didn’t pay him off or retire him. They sacked him.

    He was earning pennies. He was attacked at work and almost killed. And then left with no support financially or emotionally because of the damage it did to his mental health.

    Why would anyone want this job? Most people who were new were either doing what I was doing (trying to get a uniformed service on their CV for another role) or simply taking whatever role they could get.

    There is almost no incentive for the right people to be attracted to this role.

  3. My cousin, who has been in an out of jail for the past 20 years, says he prefers it in there. All his friends are there, they get Sky TV, 3 meals per day and any drugs they want.
    There are hard working citizens not even getting 3 meals a day…

  4. They also have PS2’s.

    Why is no-one mentioning the PS2’s??

  6. ‘Sodexo, the private company that runs the prison’

    No need to say anything more.

  7. No surprise. After seeing the female prison officer on twitter making a whole sex video with two inmates this year, I’m pretty sure the prison system in the UK is a public embarrassment.

  8. Just further symptoms of a collapsing wider society, how much longer will it go on for before the system breaks? 

  9. I wouldn’t be a prison officer. It’s a terrible job. I’d stand on a factory line for 12 hours picking bad bits out of frozen sweetcorn again before I’d put myself into the sort of danger those people face and I would probably earn about the same money doing it.

  10. I thought free shags and selling weed were perks of the job guvnor…

  11. “I feel if I had been up for it, he would have wanted sexual favours.” – so he didn’t actually ask you? It was just a feeling?

    “she said she had spoken to other women who have had similar experiences” – so the journalist reporting didn’t actually find anyone who else, they only have this one persons word for it? And it didn’t even happen to her?

    This is an extremely strange article

    I wonder how long before hundreds of women criminals suddenly start remembering things, and now want compensation.

  12. I think if I was in prison I’d appreciate the drugs and sex so I don’t really see any problem here.

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