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El Chapo, Unabomber Safe From Coronavirus In Supermax Prison

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The spread of the novel coronavirus has raised concerns among prison officials who have been weighing the merits of releasing some prisoners considered low-risk. However, at one of the world’s most infamous supermax prisons, El Chapo and the Unabomber are both safe from the virus and disease and officials report there are no cases present at all.

TMZ reports that El Chapo, real name Joaquín Guzmán, and the Unabomber, real name Ted Kaczynski, are housed at the ADX facility in Florence, Colo., a prison that some refer to as the “Alcatraz of the Rockies” and houses some of the most dangerous criminals in recent time. According to the outlet, the prison skated by coronavirus infections that have plagued other prisons.

From TMZ:

According to a rep for the Federal Bureau of Prisons … these prisoners are single-celled, with limited out-of-cell time, and are only afforded INDIVIDUAL recreational opportunities up to 7 hours a week.

We’re told for the short periods they’re out of their cell, inmates are restrained and escorted by 3 guards … all of whom receive enhanced COVID-19 health screening within the BOP system.

The Control Unit prisoners also have in-cell feeding, toilets, sinks and showers, so once again … they’re perfectly set up for a true quarantine situation.

There are 2 other housing unit missions at ADX — General Population and Special Security — both of which have strict security and distancing measures in place. As of April 10, there are no known COVID-19 cases in either unit.

Other prisoners at ADX include Oklahoma City bomber Terry Nichols, Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, and more.

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El Chapo Denied Outdoors Rec Time, Commissary Privileges

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Joaquín Archivaldo Guzmán Loera, better known to the world as El Chapo, won’t be seeing the sun anytime soon after a judge shot down an outdoors rec time quest. Further, Guzman won’t be given access to the general population commissary out of fear items purchases can be turned into weapons.

TMZ reports:

The former Mexican cartel kingpin recently filed a motion requesting at least 2 hours of outdoors recreation time per week while he’s held in custody at a federal prison in New York, plus access to the general pop commissary so he can buy goodies.

Chapo was also looking to get access to some earplugs so he could sleep easy at night and get rid of ear pain he says he’s been experiencing in the joint.

Well, a judge didn’t bite on any of it, and his reasoning is pretty damning. First, the court says Chapo’s request for outdoors time is a nonstarter (he’s currently being held under strict restrictions) because the U.S. government’s worried he’ll try to escape again.

The outlet adds that El Chapo has been well-behaved while inside the joint, which is probably why he made the request but it’s not foreseeable in the near future.

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El Chapo Trial Set To Begin In Brooklyn

The trial of alleged Mexican drug kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman is set to begin today (Nov. 5). Jury selection will start in New York’s Eastern District Court in Brooklyn. 

After escaping from Mexican supermax prisons not once but twice, El Chapo, the suspected leader of the infamous Sinaloa drug cartel, was extradited to the U.S. last year.

Basically, El Chapo has been hit with all the charges—three decades worth.

Reports the Los Angeles Times:

The indictment alone spans almost three decades. It paints Guzman by turns as a gifted executive and a ruthless killer who built the Sinaloa cartel into “the largest drug trafficking organization in the world” using novel trade routes and traditional modes of corruption to conduct billions of dollars in cash transactions and almost incomprehensible volumes of cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine and synthetic opioids across U.S. borders and around the world.

“Needless to say, the government has been playing Javert to Mr. Guzman’s Jean Valjean for a long time,” Guzman’s defense team wrote in a motion in July, casting the billionaire as Victor Hugo’s persecuted hero in “Les Miserables.” But the hundreds of thousands of pages of documents prosecutors used to bolster their case, by comparison, dwarf Hugo’s two-volume epic.

The months-long trial is also expected to include dozens of witnesses, many of them convicted criminals who will be brought from prisons across the United States. U.S. prosecutors have gone to great lengths to protect their identities, feuding with Guzman’s lawyers for months about what they would reveal and when.

Prayers up to the eventual jurors and hopefully that witness list stays secret.

Reportedly, the Brooklyn Bridge will be closed each time he heads to court. The stakes are that high.

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