New York /
The defense of Joaquin, the Chapo, Guzmán, denounced the circumstances of imprisonment in which the boss lives in the maximum security prison in Florence, Colorado, where he meets a life sentence for drug trafficking, conditions that his lawyers describe as “cruel” and “inhumane.”
“Since arriving in the United States, Mr. Guzmán has been held in prison in cruel and inhumane conditions. equivalent to physical and mental torture“, Said the lawyers of the Chapo to the judicial authorities in a document collected by various local media.
The man who ran the dreaded Sinaloa cartel spends most of his time in a cell two meters wide by 3.5 meters long, except for two hours a week, when he is transferred by the prison guards to a nine-square-meter courtyard.
Among other complaints, the lawyers of the Chapo ensure that his client only speaks Spanish and that officials only address him in English and argue that they have denied him access to Spanish language channels and education programs.
The quality and quantity of food and the cleanliness of your cell are other complaints from the drug dealer who previously showed his displeasure at the conditions of his confinement.
“You have complained about the quantity and quality of food and he explained that the portions are minimal and that he is left hungry“The lawyers wrote.
Already in February 2019, when his trial was underway in a federal court in New York his defense team called the conditions of his imprisonment “extremely restrictive.” when he was in the New York Metropolitan Penitentiary.
Faced with repeated complaints from his lawyers, who in June 2019 requested that his client be able to spend two hours in the courtyard of this prison, Judge Brian Cogan dismissed the lawsuit, assuring that his confinement had “the legitimate aim of preventing him from escaping from prison or to order any attack on individuals who cooperated with the government. “
By the recent writing of Joaquin Guzmán, their conditions, almost two years later, in the well-known one like “Alcatraz of the Rocky ones” they have not improved.
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