committed Bolden to a psychiatric unit. A prison official told him, “You won’t know who you are any more when we get through with you.”[242] He was given mind-numbing drugs. Fortunately other prisoners showed him how to fake swallowing the pills. As his situation worsened, Bolden sent the sign-marked letter to his lawyer, who alerted Barbara Bolden. She went immediately to the prison, where she objected strenuously to her husband’s treatment.[243] “She saved my life,” Mr. Bolden said repeatedly in my visits with him and Mrs. Bolden, referring especially to her persistent intercession on his
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