The maximum security prison in which "El Chapo" would spend the rest of his life in life imprisonment

The drug dealer Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán can be sentenced at any time to life imprisonment.

During the ten weeks of the trial, dozens of photographs, encrypted text messages and testimonials from 56 witnessesFourteen of them, former partners of the Mexican capo, declared against him the obtaining of privileges or a reduction of sentence.

Guzmán Loera is accused of having trafficked for over 30 years tons of drugs from Central America to Mexico and from there to the United States and Canada. He did it in every possible way: in fishing boats, boats, planes designed to escape radar, pbadenger cars, freight trains, submarines, tractors and tunnels.

According to sources consulted by the agency EfeJudge Cogan could consider sending "El Chapo", if convicted, to Colorado State Prison, the safest in the country, in the middle of the desert.

This federal maximum security prison (Supermax) is designed to isolate prisoners from the rest of the world.

"The Worst Worst Prison Network in the United States Typically Ends with ADX. He is also known as The Alcatraz of the Rockies"said the former director of the prison, Robert Hood, in a special report for the chain CNN.

The place is known for the view offered by the mountains of the region, although the prison is designed in such a way that the prisoners can never appreciate them.

"It's when it really hits you. The first time you arrive, you come across the beauty of the Rocky Mountains in the background. But when you come in, it was the last time you saw them, "Hood said.

The prison has 490 individual cells, where inmates spend 23 hours a day alone in a concrete space 2.1 meters wide and 3.6 meters high.

Meals slide through small holes in the doors and beds are concrete slabs covered with a thin mattress and blankets.
A single window 42 inches high by 4 inches wide lets in some natural light.

The places of internment are arranged in such a way that the prisoners can not see their comrades or have any contact with them.

The complex is designed so that the detainees can not see the sky either. There are intentional cables to prevent a helicopter from landing. "The architecture of the building is the key to control"said Hood.

Whenever they come out of their cell, prisoners must wear iron on their legs, handcuffs and chains of the stomach. One hour of "recreation" per day is allowed, in which they spend time in an outer cage barely a little larger than their cells. However, from here you can only see the sky. Nothing mountains.

Some cells have black and white radios and televisions offering religious and educational programs.

Inmates may work in prison as shower cleaners or other cleaning activities.

Module H is a special security unit designed to strictly limit all communications with the outside world. It is composed of 148 cells and the most dangerous prisons sleep, They are usually Islamic terrorists.

ADX Florence He has been criticized by human rights organizations for the harshness of his isolation.
An Amnesty International report revealed that prisoners with mental illness and the youngest are particularly likely to develop a type of psychological disorder.

The report states that in many cases, isolation affects prisoners' social skills and sometimes generates paranoia.

Since its creation in 1994, At least two inmates committed suicide.

Some of the detainees with whom I would share land "El Chapo" they are Eric Rudolph, an American terrorist responsible for the 1996 Atlanta Olympics bombings; Michael Swangoa doctor who killed about 60 patients during lethal injections; Zacarias Moussaouiformer al Qaeda member who was involved in planning the 9/11 attacks; Ramzi Yousef, considered the "brain" of the twin towers attack and Ted Kaczynski (The Unabomber), a Harvard graduate who, between 1978 and 1995, sent 16 bombing letters to various universities across the country.