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Since discovering noir actress Beverly Michaels, I've looked for her films. This one, Betrayed Women, was made in 1955. The film featres Carole Mathews, Peggy Knudsen, Tom Drake, and Sara Haden.

When her boyfriend Baby Face is killed, Honey Blake (Michaels) is sent to a woman's prison. It's known for its bad conditions and over-the-top discipline. The funniest scene to me was seen these women, in dresses, digging ditches.

When Blake arrives, there is a government agent, Jeff (Tom Drake) there to examine prison conditions and make recommendations to the governor. It just happens his own girlfriend (Knudsen) is imprisoned and does work in the office.

Blake is actually thrown in solitary the first day due to a fight with another inmate, but she's released from solitary due to the fact that it will look bad to the government person there.

Honey goes in on an escape plan with another inmate, and they take off, using Nora and Jeff as hostages. The other prisoner who escapes (Mathews) has hidden $50,000, and Honey wants a cut.

What I like about Michaels is that she can be absolutely mean as dirt as she was in Pickup, totally vulnerable as in The Girl on the Bridge, and in between, as here. The other thing is, she had to be tallest woman in show business - she just towers over the other actors.

Ordinary type of woman in prison story, but worth seeing for Michaels.