“A bright young housewife from San Francisco who looks more like a fashion model has a 120-days a year job which probably would stump the experts on “What's My Line.” She's the youngest, certainly the prettiest, and one of the busiest women's parole board members in the United States. Mrs. Dianne Feinstein serves as vice-chairman of the parole board of the California Institution for Women – the largest women's prison in the U.S., located near Corona. This tall, slender brunette, one of three women on the five-member board, is now in her third year on the board “and doing an excellent job,” according to its chairman, Mrs. Elizabeth Lewis of Los Angeles. “Behind the delightfully feminine facade there is plenty of thinking going on,” points out Mrs. Lewis, a two-term board veteran who is especially proud of her protege.

Serving as a team they have led the present board through the most spectacular phase in CIW history: In-prison sentence time has been drastically cut in favor of longer and better supervised parole periods, and so far has proved beneficial not only to the prisoner but to the taxpayer and society in general. […]