Cage Without a Key

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Cage Without a Key is a 1975 made-for-TV movie starring Susan Dey and Sam Bottoms, with Lani O'Grady in a supporting role. The movie appeared on the NBC television network, later repeating on CBS.

The movie was filmed at Las Palmas School for Girls in City of Commerce, California, now known as the Dorothy Kirby Center. This was a juvenile detention center, not an actual women's prison. Many of the extras were actual inmates.

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Dey plays Valerie Smith, a 17-year-old who is lured into participating in a robbery. Captured by the authorities, she is sent to a reformatory, where she finds herself in more and more trouble while trying to adjust. Her sentence multiplied, it appears Valerie may never leave state custody.