Prison officer Isabelle Dale is in trouble with the law after turning prayer room into relations room.
Prison is supposed to be a place for rules. Lots of rules, thick rulebooks, and locked doors. Very clear boundaries yet Isabelle Dale somehow looked at all of that and thought, “You know what this place needs? Romance, in a prayer room.”
Yes, that prayer room, the quiet place, the holy place, the spot meant for reflection, forgiveness, and maybe asking for better food trays. Instead, it turned into the worst-kept secret behind bars.
Isabelle Dale was a prison officer. Emphasis on was. Her job was to watch inmates, not bang, not flirt with them, or sneak off for private moments while everyone else was counting tiles on the wall. But rules, it seems, were more like gentle suggestions to her.
According to the case, Dale crossed the line. Then crossed it again, then waved at it from far away. She reportedly had inappropriate relationships with inmates, using the prayer room.
Isabelle Dale swore her “undying love” to prisoners Shahid Sharif and Connor Money while working at HMP Coldingley in Surrey, said a judge.
The 23-year-old had sex with convicted robber Sharif in the prison’s chapel area, her trial heard.
She got engaged to Sharif and later plotted with him and his associate, Lilea Sallis, to smuggle spice, a synthetic cannabinoid, into HMP Swaleside in Kent.
Dale was sentenced to three and a half years imprisonment for two counts of misconduct in a public office and one count of conspiring to convey a List A article into prison.
Sharif, who is already in custody, and Sallis were also jailed for the latter charge for 27 months and two and a half years respectively.
Judge Christopher Hehir while sentencing Dale had these to say about her.
Judge Christopher Hehir called Dale a “thoroughly devious and untruthful and manipulative young woman”.
He said he accepted she had “some vulnerabilities”, but she had tried to use them as a “shield and an excuse” for her actions.
The judge added that he suspected she had “joined the prison service with a view to becoming involved in criminal activities with prisoners”.
“She wanted to do it,” he said. “She’s attention seeking.”
In the end, this story is a reminder that Prison jobs are not dating apps, prayer rooms are not getaway spots and bad decisions always find the exit door eventually.
Isabelle Dale learned that lesson the hard way. Behind bars with plenty of time to reflect, possibly even in a prayer room.
Flip the pages for her thirst trap photos.
