"The Alcatraz de las Rocosas", the prison that awaits the "Chapo" Guzmán

Joaquín "el Chapo" Guzmán was Sentenced to life by US justice and, according to Mexican media reports, he could spend the rest of his life in ADX Florence, maximum security penitentiary in Colorado.

This is a "super maximum" security prison, where they live with characters such as Ted Kazynski "Unabomber", who was captured after one of the most expensive and demanding operations of the FBI for having perpetrated several attacks on the "letter bomb"; Dzhokar Tsarnaev, the terrorist who attempted to participate in the Boston Marathon; or Zacarías Moussaoui, who participated in the planning of the 9/11 attacks.

The decision to transfer him to this prison is linked to two episodes in the life of Chapo. As a prisoner in Mexico, he managed to escape twice in 2001 and 2015 to two maximum security prisons.

The ADX Florence is located near the city of Florence, in Freemont County (Colorado).

It is also known as the "Alcatraz Rocky Mountains".

It is the only federal supermax (the others are run by the state) and has the largest number of militia per prisoner in the country.

Hell
Life is your interior is very difficult and designed so that escape is an impossible task.

It is surrounded by callas over three and a half meters high, has 12 watchtowers, laser detectors, dogs and even footprint sensors.

In its small soundproof cells 3.5 x 2 meters, windows less than ten centimeters wide allow prisoners to see only a small piece of sky.

The only "open-air" exercise practiced by the detainees is last week in a metal cage located in a courtyard surrounded by walls six meters high that prevent the detainee from seeing the landscape.

According to Robert Hood, former officer of the Florence ADX, "life is worse than death".

The detainees do not have their own cell because they are in permanent rotation.

They live alone 23 hours a day.

To avoid contact with another detainee, all officers are co-ordinated so that only one detainee leaves his cell at the same time.