The toxic web of lesbian trysts in the hellhole women's prison that awaits mushroom killer Erin Patterson - including a jail affair even the guards find 'unsettling'
Behind bars at Dame Phyllis Frost Centre, Victoria's toughest women's prison, the former Leongatha housewife is now surrounded by hardened criminals, whose same-sex trysts help decide the pecking order.
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