A female prison officer could soon see herself behind bars after admitting to a fling with one of her prisoners.
Megan Breen, 23, initially denied the inappropriate relationship with the unnamed prisoner while working at two prisons in Gwent, South Wales.
But she later changed her plea and confessed to the illicit affair behind bars, admitting misconduct in a public office for which she will be sentenced for the offence next month.
Breen was working at both the category C jail HMP Usk and nearby open prison HMP Prescoed when the offence was committed.
The court heard: ‘While acting as a public officer, namely a prison officer, wilfully and without reasonable excuse or justification, misconducted yourself in a way which amounted to an abuse of the public’s trust in the office holder by having a relationship with a prisoner.’
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The crime was said to have taken place between February and May 2022.
Breen, of Newport, Gwent, was bailed but warned she could face jail when she returns to court for sentence.
Judge Carl Harrison ordered a pre-sentence report but told her ‘all sentencing options’ remain open.
Breen is the latest prison guard to face charges over inappropriate relationships with an inmate.
In March, a female guard was suspended from a scandal-hit prison after she ‘had an affair’ and got too close to one inmate.
Katerina Tatus, an officer at HMP Feltham in west London, was ‘marched to the gates by security’ over the claims.
And earlier this year, Linda De Sousa Abreu, a prison officer at HMP Wandsworth in south London, was sentenced to 15 months in prison after she was filmed having sex with an inmate in his cell.
And Toni Cole, 29, was jailed for a year after sharing a series of intimate affairs with a con while working at the new ‘super-prison’ HMP Five Wells in Northamptonshire.
She sent more than 4,000 racy messages during her sexual relationship with a prisoner, including 18 video calls.
She also kissed him and sat on his lap and even told him she would give unauthorised advanced warning of any cell searches at the Category C prison.
Cole is the second female officer convicted of misconduct in public office at the Wellingborough jail.
Last summer, trainee officer Rachel Stanton, 31, was given a suspended jail term after a steamy affair with a prisoner.
The mum-of-five’s relationship with armed robber Edwin Poole was uncovered when prison staff found three intimate photographs and a sexy love letter in his cell.
CCTV also caught the pair going into a prison storeroom for an hour of ‘intimacy’.
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