Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, who is serving a life sentence for drug trafficking in the maximum security prison in Florence, Colorado, has denounced the conditions of his solitary confinement and described him as “cruel” and “inhumane” . .
“Since his arrival in the United States, Mr. Guzmán has been held in vicious and inhumane conditions, equivalent to physical and mental torture,” El Chapo’s lawyers wrote to judicial authorities in a document collected by various local media outlets.
The man who led the dreaded Sinaloa Cartel spends most of his time in a cell about 2 meters wide and 3.5 meters long, except for two hours a week when transferred to a 9-square-meter patio by prison guards. meters.
Among other complaints, El Chapo’s lawyers allege that their client speaks only Spanish and that officials only speak to him in English and claim that they have denied him access to Spanish-language channels and educational programs.
The quality and quantity of the food and the cleanliness of his cell are other complaints of the drug trafficker, who previously expressed disgust at the conditions of his incarceration.
“He has complained about the quantity and quality of the meals and has explained that the portions are minimal and that he is hungry,” wrote the mantle.
As early as February 2019, while his trial was underway in federal court in New York, his defense team described the terms of his incarceration as “extremely restrictive” while in the New York Metropolitan Correctional Facility.
Faced with repeated complaints from his lawyers, who in June 2019 asked if their client could spend two hours in the courtyard of said prison, Judge Brian Cogan dismissed the demand, assuring that his incarceration had “ the legitimate purpose of preventing him from the prison escaped. or ordering an attack on persons who cooperated with the government. “
The recent letter from Joaquín Guzmán did not improve his circumstances, almost two years later, in the so-called “Alcatraz de las Rocosas”.