Katie Loxton, 27, jailed after bypassing security to have an illicit relationship with criminal Adam Higgs, 32
A female prison officer spent 380 hours on the phone with a prisoner during a six-month affair.
Katie Loxton, 27, was a serving prison custody officer at HMP Oakwood, in Staffordshire, when she first came into contact with 32-year-old Adam Higgs.
Higgs made a total of 3,451 calls to Loxton and spoke with her for more than 380 hours, costing him £798 between July 7 2021 and Jan 13 2022.
Loxton, of Sandwell, West Mids, has now been jailed for 12 months for misconduct in a public office.