Justin Rohrlich & Ana Campoy
Quartz
February 12, 2019
... A spokesperson from the US Bureau of Prisons (BOP), the agency that runs the federal prison system, declined to comment on where Guzmán might serve his time, saying, “For safety and security reasons, the BOP does not disclose an inmate’s designated facility for service of sentence until he or she has arrived and been processed into custody.â€
However, there are only a few facilities in the US built to house criminals of Guzmán’s stature—in terms of the seriousness of his crimes, not height. Guzmán, who started out as a small-time marijuana grower, built a drug trafficking empire at one point thought to control up to 60% of Mexico’s drug market. His vicious turf wars against competing cartels killed thousands (pdf) of people.
Guzmán famously escaped twice from the maximum security prisons where he was held by Mexican authorities.
Former New York City Department of Correction commissioner Martin Horn is putting his money on USP Florence ADMAX, a so-called “supermax†penitentiary about two hours south of Denver, Colorado...
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