A former prison officer has received four-and-a-half years after hiding contraband in protein powder tubs, in a scheme police said supplied a prisoner with goods worth up to £190,000.
Inspectors found rising violence, very high self-harm and widespread drugs at the Dorset category C prison, where no drug testing had taken place for about five years.
HM Inspectorate of Prisons' report on HMP Guys Marsh, published in October 2022, found the Dorset prison had got men back into work quickly after the pandemic, but violence and drugs remained serious problems.
