Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán Loera, the notorious leader of a Mexican drug cartel, was sentenced Wednesday to spend the rest of his life in a U.S. prison. He will likely be sent to the federal maximum-security, or “Supermax,” prison in Florence, Colo., home to the country’s most dangerous and high-risk defendants. This facility is designed to be the most secure federal prison in the U.S., where most inmates spend all but an hour or two a day alone in a cell with no meaningful human contact and access to only a sliver of sunlight...

Source: Wall Street Journal July 17, 2019 22:03 UTC