The Washington Post, June 29th, 1994
"Why can't we wear sandals?" Betty Mills asked angrily. "And why, if your bra is showing, or the beginnings of a breast, they won't let you in?" Mills, the wife of an inmate at the Lorton Correctional Complex, is one of scores of D.C. residents who do not like the way they are treated when they visit District prisons. Margaret Moore, the recently appointed director of the D.C. Department of Corrections, already had promised to make improvements in the prison visitation program. But the strict dress code kept coming up. "What about wearing shorts and sleeveless blouses?" someone shouted. "What ...
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