Women's Prison (1955 Film)

Women's Prison (1955 film)

Summary: {{Template}} '''''Women's Prison''''' is a 1955 American [[film noir]] [[crime film]] directed by [[Lewis Seiler]] and starring [[Ida Lupino]], [[Jan Sterling]], [[Cleo Moore]], [[Audrey Totter]], [[Phyllis Thaxter]] and [[Howard Duff]]. The film is noted today for the appearance of Moore, and for Lupino's performance as the aggressively cruel warden. In the 1980s the film became rather popular, [[Sony Pictures]] subsequently released …

John Major backs Labour plan to spare thousands of women jail

Appalling (Times, £). The number of women going to prison will be cut by two thirds under new government plans to tackle overcrowding in jails. Shabana Mahmood, the justice secretary, will propose that judges and magistrates should have a presumption against sending criminals to jail for less than 12 months. The length of suspended sentences, now capped at two years, will also be extended. Fewer than 5% of prisoners today are women. These propos…