When I was a little girl I remember a black and white scene on TV that still haunts me today. I believe it was a movie on TV. It was teenage girls in a prison cell with metal bunk beds. One of the girls finds a kitten who crawls in from an open barred window. The guards won’t let the girls keep the kitten so they riot and topple the beds. When they finish, they find the kitten squished in the floor.
Reform School Girls
https://youtu.be/-8lW3jWJ4p8
“Caged”(1950)?
It was black & white. Here is part of the plot synopsis from Wikipedia describing the ‘kitten’ scene.
The arrival of “vice queen” Elvira Powell (Lee Patrick) sets off a rivalry with Kitty. Elvira bribes Harper to put Kitty in solitary confinement, where Kitty is beaten. When a kitten is found in the jail yard, Marie attempts to make it a pet. When Harper tries to take the kitten away, a riot ensues, during which the kitten is accidentally killed, and Marie is put into solitary confinement as well.
Here is the kitten scene.
https://youtu.be/R3G1rbGJpwo
No, probably not this one.
Reform School Girls….Edna, the nurse, kills the kitten after Charlie lifts up the lid of the chest allowing it to escape!!!