Women in prison could be the basis of an exploitation story. Director Arthur Hiller goes for a social issue angle.
Terry Farmer (Lynn Loring) is the teenager charged with armed robbery with her boyfriend. Infatuated with her no good boyfriend, she hopes he will come through for her.
At the very least her mother might get her bail. Only mom is too busy with her work life. Boyfriend is too selfish.
Luckily for Terry, Paul Marino takes an interest. He knows that if Terry is mixed with inmates in a women's prison. She might not survive the experience.
There is no room for her in a youth remand institute. Paul and the detective in charge of the case needs the boyfriend to cough up and exonerate Terry.
For the early 1960s, there are some strong scenes about prison life for women. The upshot being Terry entered prison as a girl and left as a hardened woman.
This is the kind of story where Target: The Corruptors is good at, stories with a subtext.
Interestingly Lynn Loring became a top television executive in the late 1980s.