El Chapo, if convicted, would likely do time in 'Supermax’ prison

[Common]

Id bet hes responsible for alot of people made dead.

If Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, known as much for jail breaks as narcotics trafficking, ends up convicted in U.S. court, there is little doubt where he will spend the rest of his life - a super-secure Colorado prison housing America's most dangerous inmates.

Guzman, 59, pleaded not guilty in U.S. District Court in Brooklyn on Friday to charges he ran perhaps the world's largest drug smuggling operation during a decades-long criminal career that included the murder of rivals, money laundering and weapons offenses.
As a condition of his extradition, U.S. prosecutors assured Mexican officials that they would not seek the death penalty.
The indictment against Guzman charges the reputed former leader of the notorious Sinaloa cartel with 17 criminal counts. If convicted, he would receive a mandatory life prison term, according to U.S. Attorney Robert Capers. There is no parole in federal prison.
In that case, Guzman would 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, 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.
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.

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-me...-idUSKBN1550E0

[AZ Jim]

^^^Good place for the $#@!.

[pragmatic]

Id bet hes responsible for alot of people made dead.

If Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, known as much for jail breaks as narcotics trafficking, ends up convicted in U.S. court, there is little doubt where he will spend the rest of his life - a super-secure Colorado prison housing America's most dangerous inmates.

Guzman, 59, pleaded not guilty in U.S. District Court in Brooklyn on Friday to charges he ran perhaps the world's largest drug smuggling operation during a decades-long criminal career that included the murder of rivals, money laundering and weapons offenses.
As a condition of his extradition, U.S. prosecutors assured Mexican officials that they would not seek the death penalty.
The indictment against Guzman charges the reputed former leader of the notorious Sinaloa cartel with 17 criminal counts. If convicted, he would receive a mandatory life prison term, according to U.S. Attorney Robert Capers. There is no parole in federal prison.
In that case, Guzman would 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, 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.
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.

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-me...-idUSKBN1550E0

Chances for conviction are pretty high. Assuming no jury tampering monkey business.

Prisons in the US are going to be notably different that what Guzman had in Mexico. Am guessing he won't be escaping on this side of the border.

[waltky]

'El Chuy Raúl' brought to the U.S....

Mexico extradites Sinaloa Cartel member 'El Chuy Raúl' to U.S.
Jan. 26, 2017 -- Mexico's attorney general on Thursday said Jesús "El Chuy Raúl" Beltrán León, a Sinaloa Cartel member accused of working as the former bodyguard of Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzmán's son, has been extradited to the United States.

Beltrán León is facing charges related to drug trafficking, including money laundering, in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. "The event was held at the International Airport of Mexico City, where elements of the Federal Ministerial Police handed over the defendant to U.S. Marshals agents," the attorney general's office said in a statement. Beltrán León is also accused of serving as a bodyguard and lieutenant for Jesús Alfredo Guzmán Salazar, one of Guzman's sons.

Guzman, leader of the Sinaloa Cartel, recently pleaded not guilty to numerous criminal charges in New York over his role in establishing drug trafficking's most power cartel. He was extradited from Mexico to the United States last Thursday to the surprise of some law enforcement agencies, despite Mexican National Security Commissioner Renato Sales in October saying Mexico hoped to extradite the drug lord "in January or February."

Beltrán León was "investigated for his probable responsibility in the introduction, from Mexican territory, of large quantities of cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine and marijuana to several cities of the United States of America, as well as to organize, direct, administer and monitor the drug trafficking and money laundering activities of a criminal group operating in our country," the attorney general's statement added.

http://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-Ne...l&utm_medium=7

[Don]

Colorado's supermax is perfect for guys like this. It gives them plenty of time to "reflect." No special privileges. 23 hours a day in their cells. They even eat in their cell. Unless things have changed they are alone when they get their 1 hour per day outside the cell. No weightlifting. No raping or getting raped by other prisoners. Just spending time.

[waltky]

Suspected El Chapo cohort, 2 others arrested for trafficking drugs...

Another Mexican cartel runner, 2 others arrested for trafficking
Jan. 27, 2017 -- Mexican authorities have rounded up three more accused drug-runners, including a man they believe is a high-ranking member of Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzmán's Sinaloa cartel, officials said.

Roberto Nájera Gutiérrez was taken into custody by Mexico's Public Security Secretariat at a checkpoint in the town of Tizimín on Thursday, along with two other, lower-ranking operatives. Authorities believe Gutiérrez is one of the cartel's top bosses in the southeastern part of Mexico. The other two were identified as Miguel Angel Rodríguez Ramírez and Romeo Orantes Gómez.

Known as "La Gallina," Spanish for hen, Gutiérrez was on the lam for years before his capture. He was arrested and charged with multiple crimes in 2013, including two for homicide, before he was sprung from prison by allegedly bribing a guard. He is suspected of running drugs from Central America to multiple Mexican states, including Yucatán and Chiapas. Police said they also seized firearms during the arrest. All three will be detained in Mérida.

Investigators believe Gutiérrez was a top operator for Guzmán, who himself has been extradited to the United States to face a slew of drug-related charges. Cartel-related violence has long been problematic in Mexico and police are aggressively going after their top managers. Authorities on Thursday said they arrested, charged and extradited Jesús "El Chuy Raúl" Beltrán León, another member in the Sinaloa group, to the United States.

http://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-Ne...l&utm_medium=2

[waltky]

Granny says, "Dat's right - he done gone goofy from all dat cocaine he did...

'El Chapo' has deteriorated mental state, lawyer says
Nov. 3, 2017 -- A lawyer for Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman requested a medical examination of his client, saying harsh jail conditions are impacting the accused Mexican drug lord's mental state.

Defense attorney Eduardo Balarezo sent a letter to a federal judge Thursday asking for a neuropsychological exam for Guzman. "it is plain to the defense team that something is not right with Mr. Guzman," the letter read. Guzman's lawyer has repeatedly criticized his client's conditions in jail. Guzman escaped from prison twice in Mexico so he is being held in a high-security section of the federal jail in Manhattan. He is isolated from other inmates and visitors for 23 hours a day with 1 hour for exercise.

Balarezo's letter says Guzman is allowed minimal contact with his defense team and family. He also complained of "frigid" cell temperatures, lack of clean bed linens and fresh air, and constant lighting in his cell disrupting his sleep. In October, Balarezo asked to be able to have in-person meetings with Guzman, who was being kept separate by a partition. U.S. District Judge Brian Cogan said the men may have a slot through which to pass papers.

A lawyer for Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman said that in addition to minimal contact with family and lawyers, the accused Mexican drug lord is being kept in frigid and dirty conditions.

Balarezo said Guzman has complained of auditory hallucinations, depression and a feeling of persecution, and he believes the government is recording his visits. "Counsel has noticed that Mr. Guzman has begun repeating himself often and sometimes forgetting what the discussion is about," Balarezo wrote. "In addition to his apparent mental decline, Mr. Guzman also suffers from myriad physical problems, including constant headaches, ringing in his ears and throat pain.

After his capture in 2016, Guzman was held in a Mexican prison prior to his extradition to the United States. He complained of jail conditions there, too, accusing jailers of torture. "He told me verbatim: 'Every two hours at night, they wake me stridently for roll call. ... They are converting me into a zombie, they don't let me sleep. What I want is, nothing else, for them to let me sleep,'" his lawyer, Juan Pablo Badillo, said at the time. Guzman wrote a letter to another lawyer in Mexico saying a barking dog outside his cell "scares my sleep."

"El Chapo" -- meaning "The Short One" or "shorty" -- so dubbed because of his 5-foot-6-inch frame, was first captured in Guatemala in 1993 and again in 2016. Guzman's cartel is credited with dominating the illegal drug market in nearly the entire United States, according to a report by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration. The report states the criminal organization is most powerful "along the West Coast, through the Midwest and into the Northeast."

https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2017...p&utm_medium=2