23 Oct 1983
Women of San Quentin
A young female prison guard finds out that her first assignment is to San Quentin, one of the toughest prisons in the country.
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J. Anthony Hughes Jack Holden
Eleanor Stewart Anne Holden
Dick Curtis Butch Mason
Charles Middleton Saunderson
Jeffrey Sayre Jimmy
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