Dorrothy Moyo | South Africa’s Department of Correctional Services has expressed shock after one of its officers was caught intimate with a prisoner.

The department said it has been left “embarrassed and gutted” by a video of an officer and an inmate having sex. 

In a statement on Tuesday, the department said it had identified the woman correctional officer in the video and had begun a  disciplinary process.

The officer and the inmate are from the Ncome Correctional Centre, in KwaZulu-Natal.

It could not be established at the time of writing, what the female prison officer’s intended goal was in filming herself while in the act with a male inmate.