"Are you trying to make me look bad? Is that it?"
Meg Jackson was the former Governor of Wentworth Correctional Centre.
She was married to fellow officer Will Jackson. The two first met after Will left his job in Welfare after a case haunted him for a long time. Meg was serving as deputy governor at the time - she was later promoted to governor. Meg and Will wanted to start a family but couldn't so they relied on fertility treatments. She had an affair with Matthew Fletcher and became pregnant by him - she later aborted his child. She died shortly afterwards when she was accidentally stabbed with a shiv during a prison riot.
Meg was a part of Wentworth's 'revolving door of governors' with Vera Bennett serving as her deputy.
Meg's death sent shockwaves through the prison as the guards tried their best to find the killer. Jacs Holt was framed for Meg's murder but Franky Doyle was the real culprit
Time at Wentworth
Meg Jackson Meg was married to Officer Will Jackson. It's not known how long they were married for but the two had met after Will had left his post at Blackmoor as a social worker. Meg had been undergoing fertility treatments as Will and Meg wanted children. Meg had an affair with fellow officer Matthew Fletcher and became pregnant with his child. She had an abortion two weeks before her death.
Meg was a firm but fair governor, who was quite experienced with her work. She got along with most staff, and was more than capable of returning any smart comments that the prisoners would sometimes make about her.
Meg seemed to get along with most officers, however she was aware of the way Vera Bennett would try to involve herself in the women's lives, instead of focusing on the bigger picture of running a prison.
Season 1
Meg is first seen in episode one where she is talking with the officers about Franky Doyle's drug trafficking as Franky is bringing in meth and she hates was it does to the women.
When Meg dismisses the officers, she tells Will that she cannot stand Erica Davidson.
When Bea is caught trafficking for Franky, Meg flies off the handle at Vera, blaming her for "making her look bad". Meg asks Vera if she is stable enough to continue working at Wentworth as Vera has seen a "Parade of Governor's" walk through the doors of Wentworth.
Meg releases Jacs from the slot for "good behaviour".
Meg is later seen when the women have a riot in the yard, Meg is later found dead during the riot in a puddle of her own blood. It is later revealed that Franky Doyle accidentally stabbed Meg, but evidence was planted in Jacs Holt's cell to frame her for murder.
It is later revealed in series two that Meg and Matthew Fletcher had an affair in which Meg aborted Fletch's baby with Will originally thinking that it was his.
Season 3 Mention
In season 3 Joan Ferguson bugged Bridget Westfall's office with a recording device before Franky had her session with Bridget. Franky eventually let's out to Bridget she's not a good person and that she was the one that killed Meg Jackson, Not shown but Ferguson uploads a copy of the recording to a USB and sends it to Will Jackson's house. He arrives and finds it at his front door and plugs the USB into his laptop he clicks a file with the name "Meg Jackson" and hears the recording where Franky admits she killed Meg to Bridget during her session. Which leads furious and angry Will to head back to Wentworth and find Franky and confronts her for killing his wife Meg, Will pushes Franky against the wall and Franky tells him to kill her and that she deserves it but he lets her go while Ferguson was hoping he killed her watching them through CCTV footage in her office.
Trivia
- Promotional material suggested that Meg Jackson was one of the main characters, due to her promotional photos, and character bio on the SoHo website. This could have been to cover up the shock ending of Episode 1. It's also possible that it was the writers' way of pointing out that we shouldn't expect the show to be anything like the original.
- Meg appeared in Episode 2 (in pictures, while Will was looking at pictures on his computer.)
- Meg Jackson or Meg Morris (Originally played by Elspeth Ballantyne) in the original series was the only character to be in the show from episode 1 all the way through to the final one, 692.
- In the original series, Meg's husband Bill (Originally played by Don Barker) is murdered during a riot at the end of in episode 3. In Wentworth, it was Meg who gets murdered while her husband Will survived (and still remains alive in the show as of Season 8pt2)
- One of Catherine McClements best known roles is as Detective Rachel Goldstein on Channel Nine's Water Rats. Her character died in 1999 after being accidentally stabbed with a piece of glass. Was her death in Wentworth a nod to this?
Appearances
| Wentworth: Season 1 | |||||||||
| "No Place Like Home" Appears |
"Fly Me Away" Pictured Only |
"The Girl Who Waited" Absent |
"The Things We Do" Appears |
"The Velvet Curtain" Absent |
"Captive" Absent |
"Something Dies" Appears |
"Mind Games " Absent |
"To the Moon" Absent |
"Checkmate" Appears |