Notorious drug cartel leader El Chapo has sent a desperate handwritten note to the judge who presided over his case from his isolation cell in a federal supermax prison.
The note, addressed to Judge Brian Cogan, complained that authorities have prevented him from communicating with his new attorney, José Israel Encinosa.
El Chapo, real name Joaquín Guzmán Loera, is being held at the maximum-security ADX Florence prison in Colorado.
He is held in isolation away from other prisoners and under Special Administrative Measures (SAMs) which require him to be locked up in solitary confinement 23 hours per day.
The former leader of the Sinaloa Cartel claimed in his letter, which was written in Spanish, that he has not been able to receive calls or correspondence from his legal representative for at least three weeks.
