An attorney for Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman asked a federal judge to intervene over what she described as 'cruel and unusual' prison conditions for the drug kingpin
An attorney for Joaquin"El Chapo" Guzman asked a federal judge to intervene over what she described as"cruel and unusual" prison conditions for the drug kingpin who is in custody in a federal prison in New York.
Joaquin"El Chapo" Guzman. Guzman, once the leader of a murderous drug cartel in Mexico, was convicted in February of running a criminal enterprise and other drug-related charges. He will be sentenced on June 25.He's been in US detention for 27 months, and is in solitary confinement in a 10-by-8-foot windowless cell in Manhattan, according to his defense attorney, Mariel Colon.
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