Shortland Correctional Centre staff member charged with smuggling contraband into the Cessnock prison
The jail employee is alleged to have smuggled five packages into the Hunter prison.
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A Cessnock jail employee was being paid $10,000 a package to smuggle contraband to a prisoner inside, police will allege.
Corrective Services NSW Investigations Branch detectives will also allege the 30-year-old man had successfully smuggled five packages inside the Shortland Correctional Centre before his arrest last Friday.
Investigators attended the Cessnock prison about 8am and took the man into custody.
“A staff member from Shortland Correctional Centre has been charged following an investigation by the Corrective Services NSW Investigation Branch into contraband smuggling at the prison,’’ Corrective Services NSW said in a statement.
“It is alleged an inmate paid the staff member to bring contraband into the centre inside packages on five separate occasions.
“The staff member has been suspended from duty.’’
He was charged with unlawfully deliver or attempt to deliver anything to an inmate and deal in the proceeds of crime.
He was issued a field court attendance notice to appear at Cessnock Local Court on March 23.
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