Season 4 Vera becomes Governor of Wentworth after Joan is arrested and sent to Wentworth Correctional Centre as an inmate.. Vera struggles in the governorship due to several incidents and a board after blood. Vera is forced to promote Jake to deputy after Will tests positive to drugs.

Vera Bennett is a character in Wentworth, the re-imagined version of Prisoner. Vera is the Governor of Wentworth Prison, during the first three seasons served as deputy governor alongside Joan Ferguson (Wentworth), before being promoted to governor after the fire at Wentworth. Vera is demoted in the last few episodes

After the siege of Wentworth, Vera takes on the role of Industries Manager, giving Will full promotion to Governor. Vera is demoted in the last few episodes of season 5 due to Channing’s investigation, but regains the governorship in season 6 after Doyle and Ferguson’s escape

In the season 4 premiere, Vera is appointed the new Prison Governor of Wentworth after Joan is charged with the murder of former inmate, Jess Warner and is remanded in custody awaiting sentencing. Doreen Anderson ( Shareena Clanton) (seasons 1–5) is an inmate at Wentworth Correctional Centre.

What happened to Vera in Season 3?

Season 3 Vera gets infected with Hep C during a riot set up by Bea Smith, Vera keen to find out who does it, learns from Linda that Ferguson never opened the doors and it was Channing who did so. Vera later helped bring down Ferguson taking her complaints to the board.

Vera is demoted in the last few episodes of season 5 due to Channing’s investigation, but regains the governorship in season 6 after Doyle and Ferguson’s escape. Vera has a daughter whom she gave birth to during the height of the Wentworth siege, Vera after the siege takes three months off, and comes back to work as Industries Manager.

Vera and Rita wait for news as the two talk, Rita informs Vera that the injury was her fault, as the night goes on, Rita and Vera get to know each other better and Rita tells Vera that she’ll make a great mum, Vera holds Rita’s hand and puts it to her belly to feel the baby kick.

Vera later talks with Will about Ruby and Marie, and says that she did it for Rita and what Rita did was for Ruby, Vera learns that Danny’s death was an accident, and makes sure she takes the paperwork when Ann asks where it is.

Vera and Rita go back to Wentworth and Rita tells her to get some sleep, Will is standing in the entrance to the slot furious. In episode 8 Will is still angry at Vera, but he understands in the end why she did what she had to. and she says that the only people who know are Will, Rita and herself.

Vera talks with Marie and says that no one in the prison is the same since the siege. Vera later goes on a night out with Ann and leaves Grace with Jake. Vera leaves the bar and sees Ann having sex in the alley.

In episode 9 Vera listens to Marie and Will have sex in her office during the night, and in the morning confronts him about it, Will tries to justify his actions but Vera tells him “At least I didn’t bury a prisoner alive.”. she later tells him that he is compromised and that Marie manipulated him.

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