Overview
- He was moved into the ADX “Supermax” unit at the federal complex in Florence, Colorado on Sept. 26, 2025.
- According to his attorney Jan Ronis, he is under Special Administrative Measures that keep him isolated with sharply limited family visits and phone minutes.
- The defense has appealed his life sentence and says it will also challenge the ADX placement and restrictions as disproportionate to his behavior in custody.
- A Washington, D.C., jury convicted him in September 2024 on narcotics and weapons charges, and he received a life sentence in March 2025 after prosecutors cast him as CJNG’s No. 2.
- ADX Florence, the most restrictive U.S. federal prison, also houses high-profile inmates such as Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, Alfredo Beltrán Leyva and Genaro García Luna.