Nearly 20 female guards at a jail in Wales have been fired for intimate relationships with the prisoners.
HMP Berwyn in North Wales had to fire 18 female guards after three of the women ended up in court over the forbidden flings and records of the previous relationships were uncovered in freedom of information requests.
Mirror UK reported the intimate inmate relationships happened over the past six years in the jail.
Jennifer Gavan was among the female guards who took £150 (NZD293.89) to smuggle a phone into inmate Alex Coxon's cell and the pair were later caught swapping raunchy snaps via the social media app WhatsApp.
Gavan pleaded guilty to misconduct and was sentenced to eight months behind bars.
Mirror UK reported Gavan's colleagues Emily Watson and Ayshea Gunn were also imprisoned after having flings with prisoners.
Watson was in a relationship with drug dealer John McGee, who was serving eight years in prison for killing someone while driving dangerously.
Gunn, who was a probation officer, was hooking up with armed robber Khuram Razaq and they had been sending sexually explicit photos and videos to each other.
Mirror UK reported Prison Officers' Associations chair Mark Fairhurst said the relationships occurred because "the wrong kind of women" had been hired.
"A lot of people getting these jobs don't have enough life experience and are susceptible to conditioning from prisoners," Fairhurst said.
