After the Madness

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Publication Year:
2014

ISBN-13: 9781480495753

<DIV>Driving down the Long Island Expressway in November of 1992, Sol Wachtler was New York&rsquo;s chief judge and heir apparent to the New York governorship. Suddenly, three van loads of FBI agents swerved in front of him&mdash;bringing his car and his legal career to a halt. Wachtler&#39;s subsequent arrest, conviction, and incarceration for harassing his longtime lover precipitated a media feeding frenzy, revealing to the world his struggles with romantic attachment, manic depression, and drug abuse.<BR /><BR />In this, his prison diary, Wachtler reveals the stark reality behind his vertiginous fall from the heights of the legal establishment to the underbelly of the criminal justice system. Sentenced to a medium security prison in Butner, North Carolina, Wachtler is stabbed by an unseen assailant, berated by prison guards, and repeatedly placed in solitary confinement with no explanation. Moreover, as a prisoner he confronts firsthand the inequities of a system his judicial rulings helped to construct and befriends the type of people he once sentenced.<BR /><BR />With unflinching honesty, Wachtler draws on his unique experience of living life on both sides of the bench to paint a chilling portrait of prison life interwoven with a no-holds-barred analysis of the shortcomings of the American legal justice system.&#160;</DIV>