Captive beauties compete for title

Move over Miss Universe - make room for Miss Captivity, a contest to pick the most attractive female inmate serving jail time in Lithuania.

The organiser of the event, television producer Arunas Valinskas, announced this week that he had finalised a deal with the Baltic country’s only women’s prison and already had accepted applications from 36 contestants.

The prison, the Panevezys Penal Labour Colony, holds more than 1,000 inmates.

The competition, which organisers said was the first of its kind in Europe, will be shown live on the private LNK TV in mid-November.