Prison officers in Washington DC have been busted for smuggling gadgets into jail for inmates. According to the Washington Post, the officers have been “placed on administrative leave”.

The officers, Thomas Ford and Quincy Hayes, are accused of sneaking iPods, cellphones and chargers into the District’s Correction Treatment Facility, and taking bribes to do so. We’re not sure about cellphones, but surely there’s not a problem with having iPods on the inside? After all, it stops you getting bored, and as we all know, the Devil makes work for idle hands.

How were these officer’s caught? Some stool-pigeon inmate, presumably jealous that he had nobody to send him even a Zune, grassed them up. An FBI employee, acting on this information, pretended to be an inmate’s brother and arranged to smuggle “a phone, an iPod and a charger” into the facility in exchange for “several hundred dollars”. We hope that this lone charger was at least a universal one.