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EBook-of-the-Month
Available as an ebook edition from
Fictionwise
D
riving down the Long Island Expressway in November
of 1992, Sol Wachtler was New York's Chief Judge and heir apparent to the
New York Governorship. Suddenly, three van loads of FBI agents swerved
in front of him - bringing his car and his legal career to a halt.
Wachtler's subsequent arrest, conviction and incarceration for harassing
his longtime lover precipitated a media feeding frenzy, revealing to the world
his struggles with romantic obsession, manic-depression and drug abuse.
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 first hand the inequities of a system
that his judicial rulings helped to construct and befriends the type of people
he once sentenced to prison.
With unflinching honesty, Wachtler draws upon 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.
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