Razor wire, dogs, guns, steel, and concrete are so much shit if the people lack integrity. See: POTUS.
Knowing who he is and what he’s done?
No escape is at best a hope. They make movies of this stuff.
Dang me, dang me, oughta take a rope and hang me,
High from the highest tree, baby doncha weep for me.
I suppose hanged for all to see would be too quick and too merciful for the likes of Guzman; however, in the long run if he lives very long in unendurable captivity, he’ll run up one hell of a hotel bill.
Eh…all he has to do is donate $10 to the orange traitor in DC and he’ll be out next week.
“There had to be collusion from within,” said Mike Vigil, a former U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agent who worked undercover in Mexico. “There is no doubt corruption played a role in both of his spectacular escapes.”
This is the truth of it. He’s not Houdini. He doesn’t have magic. He has access to a ton of money, a private army of violent enforcers, and drugs that can practically enslave users. These three resources are of enormous value in recruiting or conscripting prison staff to help him escape.
In a healthier society, where most people are not wage-slaves living hand-to-mouth, the money and the drugs might be much less effective as inducements.
I was thinking along the same lines.
The article asks:
Could [collusion from within] happen at Supermax? Not likely.
It then lists numerous measures which would prevent an inmate, himself, from colluding with prison employees. But it makes no mention of what measures are taken to prevent an outside sympathizer from colluding with prison employees on behalf of an inmate.