Baby Black will have playmates as she starts life behind bars

BRINGING up a baby girl in a prison is far from ideal. Especially when mother and child will eventually be separated, perhaps for years.

So what can convicted killer Una Black — beginning her nine-year jail sentence this week — expect when her daughter is born, essentially behind bars?

Her child, to be named Nicole, will not be alone in the women’s prison, the Dóchas Centre. The child will be the third born into and living there in just a matter of months.