A female prison official who sent more than 4,000 flirting messages to inmates was sentenced to one year in prison.
Toni Cole, 29, was sentenced to share 4,369 intimate information with Northamptonshire’s new “super prison” HMP Five Wells.
At the Northampton Crown Court before Northampton Crown Court, Cole also found that he participated in 18 video calls with the inmates while engaging in “contact or frivolous contact.”
The court also heard about how the 29-year-old would sit on the prisoner’s lap and kiss him, and sometimes even reminded him of his cell search.
The offenses occurred between December 9, 2022 and January 25, 2023, after Cole’s misconduct was discovered by the owner of a Class C prison.
Cole, who begged for misconduct in public office, was ordered to pay a surcharge of £187 in addition to one year in prison.
She is the second official to be sentenced to misconduct in the same Huilin prison public office over the years.
Rachel Stanton, 31, was suspended last summer after being involved in the escape of his prisoner.
The five-year-old training officer was found in a relationship with armed robber Edwin Poole.
At that time, prison staff found many intimate images and a love letter in Poole’s cell, and CCTV also caught the couple in the prison storage room for more than an hour.
