Recently, the scandal at HMP Berwyn in the United Kingdom has once again refreshed the lower limit.
Over the past six years, 18 female prison guards have been dismissed for having had improper relationships with prisoners, and three of them have been imprisoned as a result.
They are Jennifer Gavan, 27, Ayshea Gunn, 27, and Emily Watson, 26.
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Born into an ordinary family in England, Garwin was an assistant store manager in a shop with a meager salary before becoming a prison guard. The dullness of life had long bored the young girl, and when she saw the job posting in Berwyn Prison, she warmed her heart.
Berwyn Prison is a private prison in Wrexhamshire, Wales, and the largest prison in the UK, holding 2100 prisoners.
Due to the shortage of managers, prisons offer good salaries to attract members of society, both men and women. Gawen applied decisively and was quickly hired by the prison.
After coming to work in the prison, Gavin found that the prisoners held here seemed to be more like rulers, and they molested female prison guards at will. Although the female prison guards have the power to punish, they dare not act rashly in the face of these villains.
According to the original plan, Warming intends to use this job as a springboard to change to a better job when he accumulates more work experience. But who knows, when she meets prisoner Alex Coxon, everything changes.
Coxon was detained in a single cell in Berwyn Prison on charges of drug and robbery.
Whenever he warmed up for rounds, Coxon would take the initiative to show favor, bluntly saying that he had a good impression of her, and showing off his past brilliant achievements. The prolonged contact led to the socially inexperienced warming developing a liking for Coxon and even creating opportunities to be alone with Coxon.
She also knowingly brought her mobile phone to the prison for Coxon to use. Later, the two had unspeakable behavior in the small studio and took explicit photos.
Later, the prison management found that Gavin and Coxon were spending too much time alone and that their care for him was particularly obvious, so they searched the cell where Coxon was. Once the photos hidden in Coxon's mobile phone were leaked, the evidence of the former relationship became criminal evidence.
Gawain was sentenced to a year in prison, and Coxon was given an additional eight months. In court, Gavin repented and cried that he should not be "emotionally manipulated" by Coxon, ruining himself and his family.
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Stepping into the abyss like Gawen are prison guards Gunn and Watson.
Originally a graduate in criminology and psychology, Gunn always wanted to pursue a better career in prison institutions. Later, he was fascinated by the robber Khuram Razaq.
The two people who were in the vortex of love had more than 1,200 phone calls in less than 5 months. At the same time, they also took various sexy and large-scale photos.
In 2019, after the improper relationship between the two was exposed, Gunn was sentenced to a year in prison.
In 2017, prison guard Watson was sentenced to one year in prison for three inappropriate relationships with inmate John McGee.
Even without meeting, the two can have intimate interactions. It turned out that Watson hid a mobile phone in a PS game console and gave it to McGee, and they often sent nude photos and large-scale messages to each other.
As similar scandals were exposed one after another, in-depth investigations and rectifications were also carried out inside Berwyn Prison.
In six years, there have been more than a dozen vicious incidents of prison guards mingling with prisoners.
The prison under the high wall, which should be a place of justice for punishing evil and eliminating evil, has now become a paradise for evildoers. In the final analysis, this is inseparable from the problem of corruption within prisons.
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With an investment of more than £250 million, Berwyn Prison is more like a luxury apartment.
Prisoners were placed in single or shared rooms, with private bathrooms, laptops and telephones.
In order to meet the needs of different prisoners, facilities such as gymnasiums, gymnasiums, multi-purpose playrooms and outdoor courts are also available.
In addition to ordering food online, prisoners can also receive remittances and packages from relatives and friends in the prison, and prisoners who perform well can also get the keys to their cells and lock them from the inside to protect their privacy.
In order for prisoners to adapt to the social environment as soon as possible after leaving prison, a series of team sports and courses have been carried out in the prison, so it is also known as "the most comfortable prison in Britain". In addition to not being able to get out of the prison gate, the prisoners' lives are completely different from normal people, which also causes them to forget that they are still criminals.
Failure to comply with prison management regulations, disobedience to prison guards, and even unrepentant continued to break the law and commit crimes... The prisoners behaved very casually, and the guards did not dare to do anything.
Although a series of scandals have been revealed, and the prison side has responded by "strengthening training and management to ensure that similar incidents do not happen again", in the face of huge financial temptations, private prisons have long become a "foci" that is difficult to remove in countries such as the United Kingdom and the United States.
When prisons became private enterprises for profit, prison guards were just an ordinary profession, and bribery was commonplace here.
This can't help but remind people of the days when American black boss Tavin White was in prison.
Tavin White used to be the gang boss of the "black guerrilla family" in the United States, and he was known for being "ruthless". After being arrested by police, he was put in Baltimore City Jail.
Even if White goes to prison, it does not affect his continued illegal activities. He paid off the warden, placed him in a prison like a presidential suite, colluded with other gang members to sell contraband here, and smuggled all the black money he earned to bribe female prison guards.
Thirteen female prison guards took the initiative to give White a hug, willingly doing things for him, often hiding mobile phones, drugs and prescription drugs outside the prison in their underwear, and smuggling them into the prison to give to White. The most shocking thing is that four female prison guards have given birth to five children for him.
He even boasted to people: "This is my prison, I am the law myself." It was not until the prisoners who had been oppressed by White were released from prison and went to the judicial department to report that his evil deeds were stopped.
In August last year, a scandal exposed at Clark County Jail in the United States shocked the world.
Prisoners bribed guards to buy keys to women's cells for $1,000, resulting in assault on at least 28 female inmates.
The vicious case took place for nearly a year, but the victims remained silent. It was not until they continued to have uncomfortable symptoms such as pregnancy, miscarriage, and infection that they chose to speak out collectively and angrily sue the prison, and the crimes of the prison guards were exposed.
According to British media statistics, there are 123 prisons in the UK, 17 of which are managed by private companies. Birmingham Prison was the first public to private prison, and problems have continued since then.
In 2016, there was a riot in Birmingham Prison, with prisoners stealing keys from prison guards and releasing 600 prisoners. They occupied four prison quarters, set fires, vandalized prison facilities, and even photographed the vicious deeds with their mobile phones and uploaded them online.
The riot lasted for 12 hours before the British authorities were able to suppress it. As of 2017, there have been thousands of brawls in Birmingham prisons.
In addition, over the past 3 years, UK prisons have wrongly released more than 200 prisoners, including sexual predators, pedophiles and highly dangerous criminals.
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Some private prisons even cooperate with government departments, and in order to save money, private prisons will drastically reduce the staffing of managers, and prisons often fall into the embarrassing situation of being unsupervised.
In order to make greater profits, prisons also outsource prisoners to private companies for various kinds of labor, and the capitalists make a lot of money, but the personal safety of prisoners is not guaranteed.
When the coronavirus pandemic broke out in the United States, many prisoners gathered to make masks without any protective measures, causing the outbreak to spread rapidly inside prisons.
Even Cintoya Brown, a well-known American social activist, has experienced first-hand the darkness of private prisons, miscarriages of justice and human trafficking.
At the age of 16, she escaped from a juvenile correctional facility, was sexually assaulted on her way, and then sold to a white man. Later, because of excessive self-defense, he accidentally killed the white man.
Although the police arrested the trafficker for traffickers, they quickly released him, and Brown was sentenced to life in prison. Fortunately, the case received public attention, and many people in society were unhappy with her, and Brown was commuted to 15 years in prison.
The moment prison becomes a business, it is doomed to inescape, oppression and violence.
It is really sad and deplorable that the private prison system, which is covered up by shady curtains, tramples the law and human rights under its feet... Text/Article 4