Women of San Quentin is a 1983 TV movie about female prison guards at San Quentin Prison. It stars Stella Stevens and Debbie Allen.

It was based on a story by Larry Cohen. He had gone to San Quentin to research a different project and was intrigued by finding a female guard there. He sold it to television but says it was rewritten and changed from the story he originally conceived.^[1]

A young female prison guard finds out her first assignment is to San Quentin, one of the toughest prisons in the country.

• Stella Stevens as Lieutenant Janet Alexander
• Debbie Allen as Carol Freeman
• Hector Elizondo as Captain Mike Reyes
• Amy Steel as Liz Larson
• Rosanna DeSoto as Adela Reynoso
• Gregg Henry as Williams
• William Allen Young as Larry Jennings
• Yaphet Kotto as Sergeant Therman Patterson
• Rockne Tarkington as William "Big William"
• James Gammon as Officer
• Ernie Hudson as Charles Wilson
• William Sanderson as "Countee"
• Marco Rodriguez as Ray Ortiz
• Tracee Lyles as Marion
• Jenny Gago as Gloria
• Ahmed Nurradin as Anthony DeHaven
• Bob Minor as J.W. Powers

• Women of San Quentin at IMDb

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