I’ve watched inmates flirt with female prison guards… their true intentions behind the come-ons has created a huge problem in our jail system

By NICK WILSON FOR DAILY MAIL AUSTRALIA

Published: 04:36 BST, 10 April 2025 | Updated: 04:47 BST, 10 April 2025

An ex-inmate has opened up on the secretive and intimate relationships female guards are forming with inmates as they help prisoners sneak in contraband. 

Sunny Naidu has spent time behind bars in maximum security prisons across NSW including Silverwater Correctional Complex in western Sydney.  

Naidu has amassed a large social media following as he exposes prison culture and promotes his new personal fitness venture Essential Shaping Strategy.

Naidu said in one TikTok video intimate relationships between female guards and inmates had become a ‘big issue’ in prisons. 

These relationships, he claimed, are then leveraged by inmates to smuggle contraband into the facilities. 

Naidu said he had been aware of at least ‘two or three’ female prison guards at his facility who had smuggled in banned items. 

He related one example in which he heard an inmate asking a female guard ‘personal questions’ which he claimed soon turned intimate. 

‘He was asking the female guard about personal questions, personal life, divorce, marriage, all that stuff,’ Naidu said.

Sunny Naidu (pictured) has amassed a large social media following since being released from jail where he posts personal fitness and prison culture videos

‘Inmates are very good at turning the conversation into whatever they want the conversation to be about. 

‘He starts asking her: “Are you into criminals? Are you into bad boys? Do you like gangsters?”‘

‘And she was laughing and joking and denying it at first but then she started going along with it and she started, you know, easing into it and having a laugh.’

Naidu said it was a tactic inmates used to gain their trust so they guards would bring in ‘stuff for them’.

‘They loved these conversations, they encouraged it, they never shut it down,’ he said.

Naidu said female prison guards in Sydney jails can be ‘divided into two groups’. 

‘One group is: they’ve got zero tolerance, they’re there just for work and it’s obvious and they don’t have a bar of it,’ he said. 

‘The other group is obvious attention seekers. 

Mr Naidu spent time behind bars at Silverwater Correctional Complex in Sydney’s west

‘They are dressed, obviously, just to feed off the attention that these criminals give them and they, when it is time to do the job… they just dawdle in the background.’

Naidu said the issue was not just localised to Sydney, claiming it was something that was happening all over Australia and the rest of the world. 

In February, NSW Parliament passed legislation making all sexual relationships between prison staff and inmates illegal, removing the requirement to prove the relationship posed a risk to prison safety and security. 

The update was recommended by an inquiry into the the conduct of former prison guard Wayne Gregory Astill who abused at least 14 inmates at Dillwynia Correctional Centre, near Windsor. 

He was found guilty of 27 charges including aggravated sexual and indecent assault and was sentenced to a maximum of 23 years in prison. 

Several social media users agreed with Naidu, saying there were some female guards who loved the attention. 

One, who claimed to have formerly worked as a NSW officer agreed there are ‘so many attention seekers now and it’s disturbing.’ 

‘When we joined [in the 1990s] we were told: “It’s not a f***ing fashion parade”,’ they wrote.

‘In my opinion, the rules should never have changed.’

Daily Mail Australia contacted Corrective Services NSW for comment.

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I’ve watched inmates flirt with female prison guards… their true intentions behind the come-ons has created a huge problem in our jail system

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