A group of California prisoners filmed a video message for Mexico’s drug kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, pledging to protect the captured drug lord and help him escape. The video was shot in a privately operated prison under contract with the Federal Bureau of Prisons, agency spokeswoman Jill Tyson said. According to the bureau’s website, a contracted correctional institution in Taft is the only facility operated by a private corporation. The low to minimum-security facility in Kern County has 2,175 federal inmates. It remains unclear whether Guzman would be transferred to a federal court in California — he faces charges in multiple judicial districts — or whether he would be sentenced to a California facility if convicted.

Source: Los Angeles Times January 26, 2017 22:12 UTC