Playbill
August, 1974
Arrest and Imprisonment can be hard enough on a man. For a woman, well, listen to this: In Skokie, Illinois, several policemen apprehended a 17-year-old girl on a drug charge, hustled her off to jail and forced her to strip naked. In Memphis, a pair of cops extorted sex from two girls after threatening them with arrest. "The mistreatment of women by police," says writer James McKinley, "is an issue that's been largely overlooked--even by the women's and prison-reform movements.&qu...
