The Offender Database reported that Alicia Novas, the Raunds Prison Officer, who had a sexual relationship with a perverted prisoner, has pleaded guilty to misconduct charges.
Alicia Novas, 19, and 30-year-old Declan Winkless, admitted offences at Northampton Crown Court after she provided her telephone number to the prisoner and failed to report his possession of a phone and cannabis.
Both admitted misconduct in public office between August and December 2024 at HMP Five Wells in Northamptonshire.
Alicia Novas and Declan Winkless also pleaded guilty to a separate charge of committing misconduct on 23 November last year.
Alicia Novas and Declan Winkless are scheduled to be sentenced on January 5.
Alicia Novas stood in the dock wearing a black outfit and glasses, and Declan Winkless appeared by video-link from HMP Swaleside in Kent.
The court heard that Alicia Novas, acting as a prison custody officer, “wilfully misconducted” herself in a way which amounted to an abuse of the public’s trust.
Declan Winkless is alleged to have encouraged and assisted both offences.
Alicia Novas and Declan Winkless admitted making an unauthorised transmission of an image or sound from within a prison, conveying cannabis into HMP Five Wells, and conveying two mobile phones into the category C prison, near Wellingborough.
They also pleaded guilty to making an unauthorised electronic transmission of an image relating to HMP Peterborough between December 2024 and March this year.
Declan Winkless, formerly of South Wigston, Leicestershire, admitted a seventh charge of possessing a device with a SIM card at HMP Five Wells without authority on 22 December.
The entrance to a modern prison. There are rising barriers across the road leading to the entrance block, which resembles a two-storey office building. Beyond a high, solid wall is a higher prison building.
The prosecutor did not present the facts against the defendants during the short hearing earlier.
Alicia Novas and Declan Winkless both spoke only to confirm their names and enter their pleas.
The 19-year-old, Alicia Novas, of Raunds, Northamptonshire, had previously been on conditional bail but was remanded into custody after pleading guilty to the charges.
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