Joaquín Archivaldo Guzmán Loera, better known as ‘El Chapo’ Guzmán, has been incarcerated since July 2019 at the ADX Florence prison in Colorado. There he is under strict surveillance by various government bodies.
According to the Department of Justice, this caution is due to the prisoner’s ability to influence, “Guzmán, the notorious ‘El Chapo’, is a prisoner like no other… The reach of Guzmán’s tentacles outside the prison makes handling him be an exceptionally dangerous and difficult task,” the justice entity said in a letter.
That is why every letter, call, message AND family visit related to ‘El Chapo’ is strictly monitored by the FBI, the DEA and the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Service.. In fact, the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP, for its acronym in English) affirms that of the 13 letters that the former drug trafficker has sent to his loved ones, they have been read by the three institutions mentioned above.
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This information ise first became known after Joaquín Archivaldo Guzmán Loera filed a lawsuit against federal government officials for his prison conditions.
The letters received by the inmate must be a maximum of three pages on both sides and are previously read by federal agents. The SAM, which are the rules of the regime for convicted terrorists, establishes that each letter sent or received by ‘El Chapo’ must be translated into English within a maximum period of 60 days so that they can be reviewed by officials from the FBI, the DEA and the Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
As for the calls, these are listened to in real time by an interpreter who transmits the information simultaneously to agents of the three institutions, for this reason the prisoner must give notice 14 days in advance each time that they are going to make a call. The calls are then recorded and transcribed for further analysis.
In the same way, the visits that the capo receives can only be made by adults, there can be no physical contact and they are monitored live by federal agents. Nor can he have any contact with the media.
In addition, Guzmán is prohibited from talking or sharing a cell with other inmates, unless such interactions take place at established times.
In February, the BOP sent Guzmán a document stating that various state agencies, including the DEA, the FBI and ICE They had asked a court for authorization for the former head of the Sinaloa Cartel to continue to be monitored under the strong SAMs rules for another year.
“Given your leadership status, your demonstrated violent tendencies toward any threat to you and your organization, and your history of breaking out of maximum security prisons, the Eastern District of New York believes that, in the absence of SAMs rules, your communications or Unrestricted contacts with other people pose a substantial risk of death or serious injury to the community.”
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