Amy Hatfield, who worked at HMP Lindholme in Doncaster, and prisoner Joseph Whittingham were among 17 conspirators facing sentencing.
A health worker who was at the heart of the biggest ever plot to smuggle drugs and weapons into prison has been jailed.
Along with fellow prisoners, family members and friends they organised a "sophisticated" conspiracy to flood the jail with heroin, MDMA, spice, ketamine and cannabis before laundering the profits.Hatfield was arrested in October 2019 after a tip-off that she had begun a sexual relationship with Whittingham.A search revealed she had MDMA, cannabis and Ribena bottles filled with spice.She also had tobacco, anabolic steroids, mobile phones and chargers.
Sentencing Hatfield to 10 years and two months in prison, Judge Kirstie Watson said her affair with Whittingham was a "significant breach of trust and abuse of position". Lydia Pinnington, 23, of Clieves Road, Liverpool, who was given a 14-month suspended sentence and a community order.Det Sgt Gareth Gent, of the South Yorkshire Police Prison Anti-Corruption Unit, said the sentences marked the end of an "unprecedented four-year investigation into one of the most significant and complex prison conspiracies in the country".
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