Preface
The largest prison becomes the largest "entertainment venue"?
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Berwyn Prison in North Wales, UK, once known as the "most comfortable prison in the UK", was built at a cost of £250 million and is known for its excellent facilities, making it the largest prison in the UK.
But lately, the prison's reputation has not been good, and sex scandals between male and female prison officers have been the ringing up. Some people sighed: Young female prison guards are like fresh meat placed in the window, ready to be picked.
One of the female prison guards, Aisha Gunn
Why do so many female prison guards fall prey to male prisoners?
Aisha Gunn and prisoner Kuram Razak
Female prison guards "willingly"?
From 2020 to March 2023, British prisons fired a total of 31 female staff working in male prisons, far more than the 19 in the previous four years, and even gave birth to a child after a female prison guard got along with the inmate.
These numbers are only a small part of what is known. A male prison guard who used to work in a British prison said that in fact, there are more and more chaotic cases of improper relations between men and women in prisons than the outside world knows.
Back in 2019, a shocking scandal came to light at Berwyn Prison, where a female prison guard was imprisoned for having an inappropriate relationship with a prisoner, and 26-year-old prison guard Emily Watson was sentenced to 12 months in prison.
Emily Watson
According to the case information, Watson actually secretly went to the cell of drug dealer John McGee three times and had an illicit relationship with him. What's even more staggering is that the two also exchanged intimate photos through social media.
John McGee and Emily Watson
That same year, Shaker Gunn was sentenced to prison for his intimate relationship with inmate Khuram Razak. As early as 2018, the two of them often used their mobile phones to post some very private videos and photos.
The police also found intimate photos of her and Razak hugging and kissing in Aischer's bedroom, some of which were taken in Razak's cell.
Elsie Gunn was arrested for having an inappropriate relationship with a prisoner
In December 2022, a prison guard named Jennifer Gawan was sentenced to 8 months in prison for her relationship with inmate Alex Coxon.
In order to get Gawan to help bring the phone to jail, Coxon also gave her £150. They used the phone to secretly handle relationships and exchange sensitive information, including pornographic photos and videos.
Jennifer Gavan
What many people can't understand is why these female prison guards are so easy to "fall in love" when they know that they may lose everything? What is going on in the prison can't be that these prisoners are particularly attractive, right?
Social commentators like to explain this in terms of "bad boys" to attract women, but this cliché is a simple guess about women's minds.
But according to the prison guards, the prisoners' behavior is more like premeditated threats and persecution, and things may be more complicated than imagined.
Prisoners set up bureaus to "trap" prison guards
In prisons for male inmates, young female prison guards, especially inexperienced newcomers, often feel particularly uncomfortable, as if they had become a piece of meat in a shop window, always being looked up and down with the eyes of the inmates.
Many inmates don't really have sex with prison guards, they just want to use this to trick prison guards into bringing in tobacco, drugs, or cell phones, which are not allowed.
They know that as long as they have a little affair with the female prison guard, or flirt, they can be fooled, and this is the clever trick of those cunning prisoners.
The recruitment age for new prison staff in British prisons has also been lowered to 18 years old, which undoubtedly provides more "convenience" for prisoners, because inexperienced young women are often more likely to become "prey" for cunning prisoners.
In order to avoid mistakes, experienced female prison guards repeatedly warn newcomers not to talk about their private lives, not to get too close to male prisoners, and not to break the prison rules for male prisoners, but apparently with little success.
The male inmates are playing a power game, as long as the female prison guards are negligent, they will press mercilessly, and more boundaries will fall like dominoes, and finally the power will be transferred from the hands of the prison guards to the prisoners.
Prisoners often have a "broken can" mentality, waiting for the female prison guards to jump into their traps at any time. For female prison guards, the threats they face go far beyond that:
The destruction of their careers, the disgrace of their reputations, and even the danger of their personal safety have all followed, putting them in an unprecedented predicament.
Prison Superintendent Vanessa Fryke
Just in March this year, Bolton's Royal Court heard a high-profile case. Two female prison officers, Alyssa Bates and Jody Wilkes, are on trial for having sex with the same male inmate.
During the course of the case, Judge Elliot Nopf accepted the prison guard's claim that the prisoners were "trapped." In his opinion, male prisoners approached female prison guards because they felt that they were too close, but female prison guards should be more careful not to get themselves into such trouble.
Prison guard Alyssa Bates had sex with an inmate and sent him nude photos
It's too easy to drill
In Berwyn, where prisoners live in single or shared rooms, each equipped with bathrooms and communication tools, and with lax management, illegal over-intimacy between female guards and male inmates seems to be particularly easy to achieve.
A female prison guard revealed: In fact, there are many places in the prison where people can have sex. It could be a dark locker, it could be a hidden cell.
As long as someone reveals it in advance, everything can be carried out quietly. Sometimes, prison guards can find an excuse to go to the prisoner's room, such as "to talk to this person."
A male former prison guard recalls an example. His colleague had sex with an inmate in the prison's drug rehabilitation unit and was eventually caught. Because the female prison guard had a special tattoo on her groin, the secret was accidentally revealed by the inmates while chatting.
Although the female colleague was not brought to court, she was investigated and told that "she will either resign or she will be arrested." She is also said to be suspected of transporting drugs to male prisoners who have sex with them, because for male prisoners, sexual relations are never as simple as a man and a woman being happy.
Most female prison guards pay a significant price if they break the rules, and only a few get away with it. Strangely, those who are in prison always escape the punishment of the law easily.
Every time a sex scandal is exposed, everyone always stares at the female prison guards, but they forget one key thing: the prisoners have a lot of time, they can take their time to observe, ponder, and have the opportunity to take advantage of the inexperience of the new prison guards.
epilogue
The sex scandal between a female prison guard and a male prisoner is simply a bizarre and funny plot of a TV series, who would have thought that such a scene would really be staged in a British prison.
Aisha Gunn
Although British prisons have repeatedly claimed to rectify similar incidents, looking at the current situation, it is not clear that there will be a result in the Year of the Monkey.
The sources in this article are from:
1. "British Prison Supervision Loopholes Exposed: Young Female Prison Guards Are Like Fresh Meat in the Window", Red Star News, released in 2024;
2. "The Big Scandal!18 British Female Prison Guards Fired for Improper Relationships with Prisoners", Global Times, released in 2023,
However, in order to improve the readability of the article, there may be polishing of the details, please read sensibly, for reference only!