Furlong most practical measurements. Furlong A furlong is a measure of distance in imperial units and U.S. customary units equal to one eighth of a mile, equivalent to 660 feet, 220 yards, 40 rods, or 10 chains. Using the international definition of the inch as exactly 25.4 millimetres, one furlong is 201.168 metres. However, the United States does not uniformly use this conversion ratio. Older ratios are in use for surveying purposes in some states, leading to variations in the length of the furlong of two parts per million, or about 0.4 millimetres ( inch). This variation is too small to
Women in Chains debut) virtually reprised a similar role fifteen years earlier in "Women's Prison"." "Women's Prison", released in February 1955, actually preceded the January 1972 broadcast of "Women in Chains" by seventeen years, and both Weldon and Marill also misstated Lupino's prison position (head guard) in the later film. Women in Chains Women in Chains is an American television film directed in 1972 by Bernard L. Kowalski for ABC's "The Movie of the Week". The leading players are Ida Lupino, Belinda Montgomery, Lois Nettleton and Jessica Walter. Parole officer Sandra Parker (Lois Nettleton) becomes aware of the death of one of her