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Mexican Drug Lord 'El Chapo' Jailed at 'Supermax' Prison in Colorado

Reuters

   Joaquin Guzman, the convicted Mexican drug lord known as "El Chapo,"
   has been transferred to a "Supermax" prison in Colorado from whichno
   one has ever escaped, the U.S. Bureau of Prisons said in a statement
   Friday.

   Guzman was sentenced to life in prisonplus 30 yearson Wednesday in a
   federal court in Brooklyn after a jury convicted him of drug
   trafficking and engaging in multiple murder conspiracies as a top
   leader of the Sinaloa Cartel, one of Mexico's largest, most violent
   drug trafficking organizations.

   Before he was finally captured in 2016, Guzman twice escaped
   maximum-security prisons in Mexico.

   "We can confirm that Joaquin Guzman is in the custody of the Federal
   Bureau of Prisons at United States Penitentiary (USP) Administrative
   Maximum (ADX) Florence, located in Florence, Colorado," the U.S. Bureau
   of Prisons said in itsstatement.

   The Bureau of Prisons declined to comment further.