Can El Chapo Escape Prison Again? Drug Lord Escaped Mexico Jail Twice

Notorious Mexican drug lord Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, found guilty of multiple criminal charges in the U.S, faces the specter of being shut in the mother of all prisons --ADX. His sentencing will take place on June 25.

Guzman is a master of jailbreaks and holds the record of having fled two high-security Mexican prisons. He was finally captured and extradited to the United States to face the trial.

In 2001, Guzmán escaped a Mexican prison with the help of prison guards and used a tunnel underneath his shower in jail to flee in 2015.

Considering the international stature as a high profile criminal, Guzman may be moved into the unbreakable Supermax prison in Florence, Colorado where life will be like frozen isolation for the rest of the life.

The “administrative maximum” or ADX evokes fear as a hugely remote heavily guarded prison with a nickname the “Alcatraz of the Rockies.”

Unbreakable ADX jail

ADX, as the top security penitentiary never had a prisoner slipping out of its precincts in the 25 years of its history.

Calling ADX “prison of all prisons” Burl Cain, a former warden of the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola said it is a totally escape-proof prison.

That means Guzman cannot imagine escaping from ADX. Heavily barricaded by razor-fitted fences, armed patrols, gun towers, and attack dogs ADX is unbreakable.

Topping it all is the nil scope to hatch a conspiracy to escape.

Spine chilling silence in the prison

Supermax is a "high-tech version of hell that shuts down all sensory perception” said an ex-prisoner in a media interview. At ADX, prisoners will be shut out for years in solitary confinement. Weeks may pass without any words being spoken, according to an Amnesty International report.

Of course, access to television is allowed, but the prisoners get a glimpse of the physical world only through a narrow patch of the 4-inch window in the bathroom sized cubicle they are locked up.

Duncan Levin, a former federal prosecutor, said ADX can securely house any dangerous criminal in the world.

Visitors to ADX will be shocked to sense the eerie silence prevailing at the hallways.

A former prosecutor Allan Kaiser recalls his visit to ADX meet a client and found the silence scary despite the well-shined floors, clean walls sans where hallways are always empty.

That deadly silence comes from the complete lockdown of prisoners for 23 hours a day, notes Deborah Golden, a Human Rights lawyer who says there is no mutual contact between the prisoners.

Duncan Levin notes that at ADX prisoner isolation is extreme and intense. “It is a punitive environment that is harsh as any place on earth.”

“It won’t be a coincidence if El Chapo is sent there,” Levin quipped.

Wife's loyalty

Meanwhile, the 29-year-old mistress of the don, Emma Coronel Aispuro is hogging the limelight for the good words she has spoken about her husband.

Despite a grueling court trial that unraveled Guzman's mafia world, drug running, multiple mistresses, assaults and murders, she stays fiercely loyal to the man she wed.

The former model married the 61-year-old man drug lord 11 years ago. That was his third marriage.

The El Chapo wife called Guzmán “an excellent father, friend, brother, son, and partner.”

But if ADX is to be Guzman’s sojourn, it is almost sure that he may not see the light of the outside world until the term ends that may be after many decades.