The state’s attorney, J. Albert Roney Jr., realized he had another carceral option. To the court, the three resistors were intractable. The Elkton jail did not have the power to force them to eat—but a mental institution might. Juanita, Wally, and Rose were taken from their cells and thrown into a police car with no notice, no explanation. One after another, they demanded to know where they were being taken. Finally, an officer replied. They were on their way to Crownsville Hospital.
