 Reich appealed the lower court 's decision in October 1956 , but the Court of Appeals upheld it on 11 December . He wrote several times to J. Edgar Hoover , director of the FBI , requesting a meeting , and appealed to the Supreme Court , which decided on 25 February 1957 not to review the case . On 12 March 1957 Reich and Silvert were sent to Danbury Federal Prison . ( Silvert committed suicide in May 1958 , five months after his release . ) Richard C. Hubbard , a psychiatrist who admired Reich , examined him on admission , recording paranoia manifested by delusions of grandiosity , persecution , and ideas of reference : 
