The former pit villages clustered to the north of Doncaster are not the sort of places normally associated with extraordinary tales of criminality.
Yet an astonishing roll-call of female prison officers jailed over illicit relationships with inmates and other corruption scandals has emerged from one remarkably small sliver of South Yorkshire.
The Daily Mail can reveal that five corrupt young guards all lived within barely six miles of one another in the former colliery communities of Bentley, Stainforth and Hatfield.
The latest to be convicted is Jahvine Kwamba, 21, jailed this month after becoming entangled with a convicted drug dealer who styled himself
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