A long-termer at Wentworth, Jacs was born into a crime family before becoming the matriarch of her own when she married Vinnie Holt.

Jacs gets released early by Meg Jackson and makes a joke out of Bea Smith and verbally abuses Franky Doyle.

At the end of the episode, Jacs forces Bea to burn Franky’s hand on the steam press.

[8] Jacs is mentioned by Boomer in episode one of Season 8 McQuade was nominated for Best Guest or Supporting Actress in a Television Drama in the AACTA Awards.

It was a sobering moment watching Bea walk trance like to the distress button and press it with her bloody hand."

[12] Ian Hollingshead writing for The Telegraph said about the first episode "The final showdown between Franky (Nicole da Silva) and Jacs (Kris McQuade), a young tattooed lesbian and a schoolmarmish matron, laced with malice as they fought over who would be top dog, was so compelling – and the cliffhanger so agonising – that it would be a crime to miss the next instalment.