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Female prison wardens having sex with inmates because inexperienced staff are being put in jails without being trained on how to reject the advances of pent-up male prisoners, a whistleblower claims.
Female prison officers who lose everything by having relationships with inmates do so because of 'a mix of emotional vulnerability and the thrill of the forbidden', an expert has said.
The women's departures are said to have contributed to the shortage at HMP Berwyn - Britain's largest male jail set on a sprawling industrial estate in Wrexham, north Wales.
HMP Berwyn, which cost £212million to open, is being "adversely affected" by staffing issues in the wake of a string of sex scandals involving inmates and female members of staff
EXCLUSIVE: The epidemic of sex and smuggling scandals at HMP Berwyn is the result of naïve, vulnerable and poorly educated staff, a prison training manager and an inmate revealed.