I respect those who are willing to go to jail for their involvement in peaceful protests, putting their freedom and personal comfort on the line because of their social or political beliefs. I've just never had any interest in getting arrested myself. Quite the opposite. The idea of going to jail scares me, just the way it's supposed to scare people. Even the nicest jails that I've visited didn't seem to be places where you'd want to spend the night.
Strip searches are an everyday fact of life in American jails.
They are deemed to be a necessary security precaution. I realize that a strip search has an ugly connotation because it has sometimes been abused by law enforcement personnel, but the fact is that some people are quite adept at concealing items such as weapons and drugs that they may want to smuggle into correctional facilities. Every inmate at the Cook County Jail gets strip-searched when he or she is brought to the facility. It's part of the deal. The Cook County sheriff's personnel don't pick and choose whom they're going to strip-search and whom they're going to let slide, at least they're not supposed to.