It's understandable that he has come down with mental fatigue, sleep deprivation, daily headaches and ear pain. People are not meant to be cooped up in substandard housing like this.
Won't YOU help?
Oh, before you run off to write a check...the man we're speaking of here is Mexican drug kingpin Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán.
He's been in the federal hoosegow for 27 months and he's got the itch to get out and breathe free fresh air again, which is probably why he had his lawyers make requests of U.S. District Judge Brian Cogan the other day: El Chapo wants two hours of outdoor exercise every week, commissary access, permission to buy six bottles of water a week and earplugs.
"This deprivation of sunlight and fresh air, over an excessive 27-month period, is causing psychological scarring,” the attorneys said, claiming that locking this international murderer up is “cruel and unusual punishment” in violation of the Eighth Amendment.
As you'll recall, Guzmán faces multiple life sentences and will be sentenced in federal court next month. The Sinaloa Cartel boss ran one of the world's largest drug trafficking enterprises. And he didn't just sell his drugs. He murdered people right and left (on one occasion, he allegedly shot a rival cartel member and buried the victim alive) so he's not the goofy hippie down the street who sells a little extra Maui Wowie to keep his van running.
And El Chapo escaped from two prisons in Mexico. Poof! Just vanished into thin air, the air he now seeks to breathe from the prison roof where a helicopter might swoop down and take him far away...
“An escape via rooftop, using a helicopter, or any related means would be elementary," the prosecutor wrote in his response to the court.
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Guzmán is not permitted to have unmonitored phone calls. He cannot send or receive mail, and as a matter of fact, his attorneys are the only people he can communicate with.
Now THAT'S a punishment! See ya later, Joaquín.
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