ZURICH: A prison employee has been arrested after allegedly smuggling drugs into a NSW jail in exchange for cash. Drug dogs were sweeping Cessnock Correctional Centre on Monday when illicit substances were found in a wallet belonging to the 29-year-old employee, police said in a statement on Tuesday.
The man was arrested and interviewed.
Police will allege he smuggled in contraband on at least 10 occasions in 2017 in exchange for cash.
The employee was charged with two corruption offences, bringing drugs into a prison and two counts of unlawfully delivering something to an inmate.
He has been suspended from duty and granted conditional bail to appear in Cessnock Local Court on January 24.
