Betty Andrews (Rochelle Hudson), young, unemployed and luckless, is wrongfully convicted of shoplifting and sent to a women's prison for one year. Betty's caring attorney, Mary Ellis (Frieda Inescort), and journalist Jim Brent (Glenn Ford) take a special interest in the poor woman's case and work to get her paroled, but in the meantime Betty is forced to deal with both a sadistic female warden and the bullying inmates who do her bidding in return for preferential treatment. Wikipedia
Betty Andrews (Rochelle Hudson), young, unemployed and luckless, is wrongfully convicted of shoplifting and sent to a women's prison for one year. Betty's caring attorney, Mary Ellis (Frieda Inescort), and journalist Jim Brent (Glenn Ford) take a special interest in the poor woman's case and work to get her paroled, but in the meantime Betty is...