MOMENT ‘CORRUPT’ PRISON OFFICER TELLS INMATE HOW TO GET AWAY WITH USING DRUGS BEHIND BARS

Prison officers have been accused of corruption after shocking footage showed them turning a blind eye to drug use behind bars.The video, taken on a phone a lag had smuggled into his cell, shows an officer confronting a prisoner as he stands outside their door - confronted with the stench of marijuana.
And when the convict pushes back - asking the officer openly what his room smells like - he is met with an extraordinary response as he is told to open his window so it isn't as obvious.
It comes as the prison service is in crisis, with out-of-control officers becoming notorious as stories of corruption and sordid relationships with their convicts hit the national headlines.
In the footage, obtained by Channel 4's UK Prisons - Sex, Drugs & Corruption: UNTOLD, the officer says: 'What the f*** is in that? I don't wanna know.'
The prisoner responds: 'Why, what does it smell like?', to which he replies: 'F***ing weed.'
When the lag says: 'Weed? It smells like weed?' he says: 'Yeah, hence why I told you, open your f***ing window.'
In a brazen show of shamelessness, the prisoner then asks 'What's that on the table?' The officer says: 'Well, there you go.'
It comes as figures obtained by the programme show there were 1624 reported investigations of officers breaching security between January 2022 and March 2024 - over double that of 10 years ago.
52 prison staff were recommended for dismissal for breaching security, with more than ten times more - 549 - resigning in the same time frame after having been previously subject to investigation for the same issue.
Ex-prisoner David Navarro, who presents the show, said that the footage 'suggests that prison staff at every level could be part of the problem'.
Videos from the show also revealed shocking violence inflicted on inmates, with young men flinging themselves at each other in horrific clips.
In another, a prisoner explains how he got a tiny phone - or Zancos, as they are known in prison - through a 'Gov link'.
Out of the 180 investigations the MoJ said 73 cases saw disciplinary action, with the vast majority of the guards being fired.
The number of women officers fired, 40 in the last four years, means the annual average is ten cases every year.
This is a jump from the from the 2017 to 2019 period where the annual average was just three per year.
And one ex-prisoner even admitted that lags would pay as much as £500 for one bucket of KFC chicken smuggled into jail by the officers.
A record number of female prison guards have been fired for affairs with male inmates - with 29 given the sack in the past three years.
That compares to just nine women who lost their jobs for the same offence between 2017 and 2019.
A Prison Service spokesperson said: 'While the vast majority of most prison staff are honest, we are catching more of the small minority who break the rules through our Counter-Corruption Unit and stronger vetting.
'Where officers fall below our high standards, we do not hesitate to take robust action.'
UK Prisons Exposed - Sex, Drugs & Corruption: UNTOLD, streams on Channel 4 from Wednesday 25th June
In January, former Wandsworth prison officer Linda De Sousa Abreu was jailed for 15 months after a film of her having sex with an inmate was shared online while still in uniform.
De Sousa Abreu admitted to having sex with the same prisoner on another occasion, while she was also caught on her own body camera giving oral sex to him on the same day the original sex tape was filmed.
The explicit clip begins with her dressed in full uniform and performing a sex act on Weirich, who has a pregnant girlfriend, at the Category A jail.
It then shows her having sex with the serial thief while his cellmate films on a mobile phone. Footage of the cell shows a TV and piles of clothes heaped over a bunk bed.
The friend who is smoking while recording says: 'Guys we've made history, this is what I'm telling you.'
In the past year, imprisoned gangsters have claimed they paid female prison officers up to £2,000 for sex in their prison cells.
Other women officers have claimed that these crimes lead to inmates making 'sexual approaches as they believe that they are 'fair game'.
Out of the 180 investigations the MoJ said 73 cases saw disciplinary action, with the vast majority of the guards being fired.
This is a jump from the 2017 to 2019 period where the annual average was just three per year.
More recently, another officer Toni Cole, 29, was jailed for a year after being convicted of sharing 4,369 intimate messages with a con at Northamptonshire's new 'super-prison' HMP Five Wells.
Appearing before Northampton Crown Court, Cole was also found to have taken part in 18 video calls with the inmate whilst engaging in 'contact which was sexualised or flirtatious'.
Last October Cheryl Hinde, 44, who worked at HMP Kirkham was jailed for four months after she had a relationship with an inmate, which saw them spend hours on the phone together as they regularly swapped love letters.
Prison officer Hannah Angwaba, 30, was sentenced to four years in June after smuggling drugs, tobacco and mobile phones into HMP Forest Bank using her braided hair during her romance with a convicted paedophile Anton McPherson.
Elsewhere in north Wales, Wrexham, law graduate and prison lag Jessica McClearly dodged jail after sparking a romance with an inmate, which saw the pair sleep together after his release. It ended after she became pregnant but miscarried.
Mother-of-five Rachel Stanton, 31, admitted to wilful misconduct in public office after she entered a relationship with Edwin Poole while he was serving a 10-and-a-half-year sentence in HMP Five Wells, Wellingborough, Northamptonshire.
Her romance with Poole was uncovered when prison staff found three intimate photographs and a sexy love letter in the inmate's cell.