Now Mexican drug lord Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman has been convicted, he will likely spend the rest of his life in a prison known as the Alcatraz of the Rockies.
His neighbors will be terrorists, murderers, notoriously violent inmates and rival gang members.
The kingpin is known as much for jail breaks as narcotics trafficking, so it's expected he will be sent to a super-secure Colorado prison housing America's most dangerous inmates.
Guzman, 59, was convicted of 10 counts of various drug trafficking charges at a U.S. District Court in Brooklyn on Tuesday.
He was found guilty of running the world's largest drug smuggling operation during a decades-long criminal career that included the murder of rivals, money laundering and weapons offenses.
Guzman will probably be sent away to the one-and-only lockup designed to incarcerate the highest-risk prisoners in the federal penal system - the Administrative Maximum Facility (ADX) in Florence, Colorado, 90 miles (144 km) south of Denver
Widely known as Supermax, or 'Alcatraz of the Rockies,' the facility opened in 1994 and holds 400-plus inmates inside specially designed 'control units' that function as prisons within prisons
As a condition of his extradition, U.S. prosecutors assured Mexican officials that they would not seek the death penalty.
Guzman will probably be sent away to the one-and-only lockup designed to incarcerate the highest-risk prisoners in the federal penal system - the Administrative Maximum Facility (ADX) in Florence, Colorado, 90 miles (144 km) south of Denver.
'There's a high likelihood that he would end up at ADX Florence given his history of escaping and his ability to compromise corrections staff in Mexico,' said Martin Horn, a professor of corrections at City University of New York's John Jay College of Criminal Justice said in 2017.
Widely known as Supermax, or 'Alcatraz of the Rockies,' the facility opened in 1994 and holds 400-plus inmates inside specially designed 'control units' that function as prisons within prisons.
Inmates in these units are confined to single-person cells for up to 23 hours a day, depriving them of virtually all contact with the outside world.
Among its most infamous residents are Ramzi Yousef, mastermind of the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center in New York; convicted Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev; the airline 'shoe bomber' Richard Reid; and Unabomber Ted Kaczynski.
Special restrictions are designed not only to prevent escape and keep corrections staff safe but to ensure that the most incorrigible inmates have no means of exerting influence or threats beyond prison walls.
'The prisoners really have no contact with other prisoners, all their movements are controlled,' Horn told Reuters. 'They get limited privileges, limited contacts. ... It's a tough place to do time.'
One of the cells in ADX Florence is pictured above. Special restrictions are designed not only to prevent escape and keep corrections staff safe but to ensure that the most incorrigible inmates have no means of exerting influence or threats beyond prison walls
Boston Bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev (left) and Unabomber Ted Kaczynski (right) could be among El Chapo's new neighbors
In 2016, Guzman slipped away from a central Mexico prison through a tunnel, his second dramatic prison escape. He is pictured in 2014 after he was recaptured following his first prison escape
One 36-year-old former federal prisoner, who spent six years at Supermax between 2008 and 2014 for his involvement in prison riots at two federal lock-ups, said the stark conditions border on the 'inhumane.'
'Those guys at Guantanamo had it much better than we did,' the ex-inmate said, speaking to Reuters on condition of anonymity. Numerous lawsuits have been filed against the U.S. Bureau of Prisons over living conditions there.
Citing security concerns, U.S. authorities have been tight-lipped about where Guzman will be held while awaiting trial, or where he would be sent if convicted.
In 2016, Guzman slipped away from a central Mexico prison through a tunnel, his second dramatic prison escape.
'The prisoners really have no contact with other prisoners, all their movements are controlled,' Horn told Reuters. 'They get limited privileges, limited contacts. ... It's a tough place to do time'
Muslim cleric Abu Hamza (left) and the airline 'shoe bomber' Richard Reid (right) have also been housed in the notorious facility
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Main photo article Now Mexican drug lord Joaquin ‘El Chapo’ Guzman has been convicted, he will likely spend the rest of his life in a prison known as the Alcatraz of the Rockies.
His neighbors will be terrorists, murderers, notoriously violent inmates and rival gang members.
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