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'Supermax' prison El Chapo may call his new home
There will be NO escaping this time! El Chapo will likely spend the rest of his life at the 'supermax' prison known as the 'Alcatraz of the Rockies' - where the notorious inmates are deprived of all contact with the outside world
- Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman was convicted on Tuesday and could face life in jail
- Guzman will probably be sent away to the nation's most high security facility
- ADX in Florence, Colorado, is the only prison given the 'supermax' status
- It holds 402 inmates inside 'control units', known as prisons within a prison
- He will have virtually no contact with other inmates or prison guards
- The facility is designed to minimize him exerting any influence beyond the walls
- One inmate who spent six years inside the prison said it was 'inhumane'
- It's home to the country's most notorious criminals including Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and Unabomber Ted Kaczynski
- On Tuesday US Attorney Richard Donogue said El Chapo would have 'no escape' from his conviction
Now that Mexican drug lord Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman has been convicted, he will likely spend the rest of his life in a prison known as the Alcatraz of the Rockies.
His neighbors will be terrorists, murderers, notoriously violent inmates and rival gang members.
The kingpin is known as much for jailbreaks as narcotics trafficking, so it's expected he will be sent to U.S. Penitentiary Administrative Maximum Facility aka ADX Florence, a super-secure Colorado prison home to America's most dangerous criminals.
Guzman, 59, was convicted of 10 counts of various drug trafficking charges at a U.S. District Court in Brooklyn on Tuesday.
He was found guilty of running the world's largest drug smuggling operation during a decades-long criminal career that included the murder of rivals, money laundering and weapons offenses.
On Tuesday Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman was convicted on all ten counts in his drug trafficking trial
Guzman will probably be sent away to the one-and-only lockup designed to incarcerate the highest-risk prisoners in the federal penal system - the Administrative Maximum Facility (ADX) in Florence, Colorado, located 90 miles south of Denver
Widely known as Supermax, or 'Alcatraz of the Rockies,' the facility opened in 1994 and holds 402 inmates inside specially designed 'control units' that function as prisons within prisons
Inside look at ADX Florence: One of the cells in supermax prison is pictured above. Special restrictions are designed not only to prevent escape and keep corrections staff safe but to ensure that the most incorrigible inmates have no means of exerting influence or threats beyond prison walls
On Tuesday US Attorney Richard Donogue said El Chapo would have 'no escape' from his conviction.
'It is a sentence from which there is no escape and there is no return,' he said to reporters.
Guzman will return to court to be sentenced on June 25.
As a condition of his extradition, U.S. prosecutors assured Mexican officials that they would not seek the death penalty.
Now the pressure is on the U.S. to make sure Guzman doesn't make a slippery escape again. The notorious drug lord has already been imprisoned twice and made two escapes from two maximum-security Mexican prisons in 2001 and 2015.
Guzman will probably be sent away to ADX Florence, the one-and-only lockup designed to incarcerate the highest-risk prisoners in the federal penal system, located in Florence, Colorado, 90 miles (144 km) south of Denver.
'There's a high likelihood that he would end up at ADX Florence given his history of escaping and his ability to compromise corrections staff in Mexico,' said Martin Horn, a professor of corrections at City University of New York's John Jay College of Criminal Justice said in 2017.
Widely known as Supermax, or 'Alcatraz of the Rockies,' the facility opened in 1994 and holds 400-plus inmates inside specially designed 'control units' that function as prisons within prisons.
Inmates in these units are confined to single-person cells for up to 23 hours a day, depriving them of virtually all contact with the outside world.
It's currently home to 402 all male inmates.
El Chapo gave his wife Emma Coronel Aispuro a thumbs up after he was found guilty and escorted out of the courtroom on Tuesday in Brooklyn federal court
AIspuro pictured fighting through the media crowds after her husband's trial
El Chapo was finally captured for the last time in Mexico in 2016 after being on the run for more than a year. He has broken out of prison twice over the last 20 years to the mortification of the Mexican authorities he and his cronies have long-claimed are corrupt
Among its most infamous residents are Ramzi Yousef, mastermind of the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center in New York; convicted Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev; the airline 'shoe bomber' Richard Reid; and Unabomber Ted Kaczynski.
It's also home to 1996 Olympics bomber Eric Rudolph and 9/11 conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui.
But the prison does hold one familiar face for the drug kingpin: Osiel Cardenas Guillen, the onetime leader of the Gulf cartel who was extradition to the U.S. in 2007 and sentenced to 25 years behind bars in 2010, according to Business Insider.
Special restrictions are designed not only to prevent escape and keep corrections staff safe but to ensure that the most incorrigible inmates have no means of exerting influence or threats beyond prison walls.
El Chapo's new home? A look inside the sterile cells of ADX florence pictured above with stone furniture
Inside the same room inmates have a toilet, sink, and miniature mirror
The cafeteria of the Supermax Prison in Florence, Colorado pictured above
An outdoor area of the notorious prison pictured above
'The prisoners really have no contact with other prisoners, all their movements are controlled,' Horn told Reuters. 'They get limited privileges, limited contacts. ... It's a tough place to do time'
'The prisoners really have no contact with other prisoners, all their movements are controlled,' Horn told Reuters. 'They get limited privileges, limited contacts. ... It's a tough place to do time.'
One 36-year-old former federal prisoner, who spent six years at Supermax between 2008 and 2014 for his involvement in prison riots at two federal lock-ups, said the stark conditions border on the 'inhumane.'
'Those guys at Guantanamo had it much better than we did,' the ex-inmate said, speaking to Reuters on condition of anonymity. Numerous lawsuits have been filed against the U.S. Bureau of Prisons over living conditions there.
Citing security concerns, U.S. authorities have been tight-lipped about where Guzman will be held while awaiting trial, or where he would be sent if convicted.
Bureau of Prison officials said he'll be treated as any other inmate.
'He will be treated as any other offender who is sentenced to a term of imprisonment,' the BOP said in a statement to Newsweek.
New neighors: Boston Bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev (left) and Unabomber Ted Kaczynski (right) are currently detained at the notorious Colorado supermax prison
Muslim cleric Abu Hamza (left) and the airline 'shoe bomber' Richard Reid (right) have also been housed in the notorious facility
'If convicted, the [U.S. Marshals Service] will request designation and forward all his documentation to the [Designation and Sentence Computation Center]. He will be classified and his sentence computation will be completed. Based on his classification, he will be placed in a Bureau facility commensurate with his security and program needs,' the statement added.
In 2015, Guzman slipped away from a central Mexico prison through a tunnel, his second dramatic prison escape.
ADX Florence is a suitable place for Guzman based on his history of escape, as it's located in the middle of Colorado's mountain range and is difficult to get to as its located an hour south of Colorado Springs.
'The natural place would be supermax in Florence. They already have inmates there who are the worst in the world,' Law School professor Laurie Levenson said to the outlet.
She suspects the Bureau of Prisons has been 'preparing for [Guzman] for a while.
Levenson pointed out that ADX Florence is a better prison for Guzman than the notorious Guantanamo as its land-based and isn't being threatened with being closed down.
Experts warn that prison officials will have to be innovative as El Chapo has already proved to be an apt jail-breaker.
'El Chapo, you might be a legend, but you're going to be a legend in your one mind once we have custody of you,' Levenson said.
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