The New York Times, November 16, 1917 – Now that women in New York can vote, the New York members of the National Woman’s Party send a letter to one of their representatives in Congress urging him to pass the Federal Suffrage Amendment and to treat the imprisoned suffragists as political prisoners. read clipping The New York Times, November 17, 1917 – Front Page – The thirty women, just sent to the Occoquan Workhouse, are treated brutally when they refuse to comply with the orders of the prison officials. The women are seized by eighty guards and flung across the floor. They are then jailed in the men’s quarters. When Lucy Burns refuses to wear the prison garb, she is stripped to her underwear, and her hands are manacled to the bars in her cell. The guards threaten to gag her and to put her in a strait jacket. Marines from Quantico are sent to prevent friends of the suffragists from entering the prison grounds. Only their lawyer is permitted to see the women. read clipping The New York Times, November 18, 1917 – Women appeal to the Commissioner of the District of Columbia Prisons to improve the conditions for the jailed suffragists. read clipping The New York Times, November 18, 1917 – A federal judge issues a writ of habeas corpus regarding the treatment of the imprisoned suffragists. read clipping | 
