Cenk Uygur
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El Chapo Prison Stay Might Be Nicer Than Your Life
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December 4, 2015
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3:06Now PlayingMexican drug lord El Chapo recently escaped from a maximum security prison in his home country. As it turns out his stay there didn’t seem so bad, as he received conjugal visits about every 9 days. Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian (The Point) hosts of The Young Turks discuss.
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“Mexican drug lord Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán Loera was granted nearly four dozen conjugal visits during the year and a half he spent at Mexico's highest-security prison, before breaking out of it in July.
Journalist Anabel Hernández, writing for the Mexican magazine Proceso, first revealed the high frequency of Guzmán's conjugal visits back in August. More details emerged in October, when Mexican Sen. Alejandro Encinas made public the specific number of Guzmán’s visits from attorneys and family. The figures resurfaced last week in another Proceso report based on documents made public by Méxicoleaks, a group that advocates for government transparency. That report asserts that federal authorities knew key details about Guzmán’s plans to escape from prison, but failed to act.
Under Mexican law, prisoners may designate a spouse or partner to solicit authorization for conjugal visits. The law only allows one person per inmate to receive such authorization, and the relationship between the inmate and their partner must have existed prior to imprisonment.”
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