US Prison Officer Arrested Over Alleged Smuggling of Home-Cooked Meals to Inmates

A detention officer in South Carolina, United States, has been dismissed and arrested over allegations that she brought unauthorised home-cooked meals into the facility where she worked. Authorities allege that the officer hid the food beneath a blanket to avoid surveillance cameras, then left it in a location where inmates could collect it. She was suspended after another officer reported unauthorised items entering the detention centre. She was later charged with misconduct in office and furnishing contraband to inmates. Officials said unauthorised food is treated as contraband because it could be used to conceal dangerous items, although no weapons or harmful objects were alleged to have been found in the meals. The allegations have not been proven in court.

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