Pursuits
Chapo’s Motorcycle Freedom Ride Spurs Doubts at Kingpin Jail
Drug trafficker Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman is escorted to a helicopter by Mexican security forces at Mexico's International Airport in Mexico city, Mexico, on Saturday, Feb. 22, 2014.
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If Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman’s escape from prison has led Mexican officials to overhaul security at the facility to ensure various other drug kingpins don’t slip out, they’re doing a good job of denying it.
Drastic measures are needed urgently at the Altiplano maximum-security prison because some of the country’s most notorious alleged and convicted drug-gang criminals are housed there, said Martin Barron, a researcher at Inacipe, a Mexican criminology university.