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The federal court in New York sentenced the notorious Mexican drug lord Joaquin Guzman to life imprisonment on the 17th local time, according to a number of foreign media such as the associated press and Reuters.
According to CNN, the Mexican drug lord Guzman, nicknamed "dwarf", was sentenced to life imprisonment plus 30 years in prison and ordered to pay a fine of $12.6 billion. Reported that this may be his last public appearance before being locked up in the most secure Colorado supermax prison.
Guzman, 62, was convicted of 10 counts in February, including continuing to operate a criminal enterprise, engaging in criminal activities, conspiracy to launder money, mandatory imprisonment and drug trafficking. It is reported that Guzman is the leader of Sinaloa, Mexico's largest drug trafficking group. He was arrested and sentenced to more than 20 years in prison, but escaped in 2001. He once worked in the mountains of northwest Mexico. He controlled a 500 million pound drug trafficking Empire, worth $1 billion.
Guzman had been held in solitary confinement for two and a half years before the trial. He is expected to be held in ADX supermax prison in Florence, Colorado. Richman, a member of Guzman's lawyer team, said after his conviction: 'he will definitely go to supermax, Colorado. No one has ever escaped from there. Absolutely impossible. "
Supermax prison, located in a remote area about 185 kilometers south of Denver, is a gathering place for the most violent offenders in the United States. It holds about 400 prisoners, 22 of whom need to stay in their 7x8 foot cells for 22 hours. Since the prison was opened in 1994, there has never been a prison break. In addition, supermax prison also has all the facilities that prisons should have to hold the most violent and dangerous criminals in the United States. The outside world calls it 'Devil Island at the foot of Rocky Mountain'.
On February 22, 2014, Guzman was arrested in the Pacific Coast Resort of masaland. On July 12, 2015, Guzman successfully escaped again. After his third arrest in 2016, Guzman was extradited to the United States for trial in January 2017.