Chapter Nineteen
Captain Steuben
“The best part of my job was the strip searches.”
Captain Steuben was one of the most unsettling interviews I conducted. The woman was physically intimidating, taller than many men, thick in the neck, shoulders and arms. She wore hospital restraints during the interview, padded wrist cuffs connected to a chain belt, and ankle cuffs chained to a flush ring securely bolted into the hardwood floor. A supervising nurse was in attendance throughout the interview. When I asked the nurse if all of these precautions were really necessary, she assured me that Ms. Steuben had a history of irrationally violent outbursts, and my questions were likely to trigger one.
Like Judge Mather, she had been recommended for hospitalization and treatment rather than imprisonme
