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As security measure, El Chapo to be moved from cell to cell
January 13, 2016

Beginning Sunday, captured drug kingpin Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman will be moved from cell to cell as a way to ensure that he won't escape a Mexican prison, a senior Mexican government official told CNN on Wednesday.

He is being held at Altiplano prison in Almoloya de Juarez -- the same prison he escaped from in July.

Guzman managed to get out of the maximum security facility, authorities said, by making his way down a hole underneath the shower in his cell. They said he then hustled into a tunnel that had been constructed to include ventilation and lighting. 

He jumped on a motorcycle attached to rails and zipped out of the lockup. It was the second escape from a Mexican prison for the man responsible for untold carnage related to his billion-dollar illegal drug empire.

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