A correctional officer has been charged with corruption after an inmate allegedly paid her to smuggle tobacco into a prison in western Sydney.
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The 40-year-old officer allegedly supplied tobacco to the inmate at a correctional facility in Parklea just before 11am on Sunday.
Officers from the Corrective Services Investigation Unit's Strike Force Iraga searched the inmate and seized tobacco.
The woman was arrested shortly after and taken to Riverstone police station.
She was charged with two counts each of introducing contraband to a correctional centre and an agent corruptly receiving a benefit.
Immediately dismissed from her job, the woman was granted strict conditional bail and is due to appear at Blacktown Local Court on January 29.
Strike Force Iraga had been set up to identify and investigate potentially corrupt behaviour of employees at the Parklea facility.
