'El Chapo' enters US supermax prison in Colorado

El Chapo will serve his sentence at the Administrative Maximum Facility (ADX) prison in Florence, Colorado -- known as the "Alcatraz of the Rockies". [AFP]

Fallen Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman was locked up Friday at the ADX federal maximum security prison in the US state of Colorado, where he will spend the rest of his days.

"We can confirm that... Guzman is in the custody of the Federal Bureau of Prisons" at the Administrative Maximum (ADX) site in Florence, central Kansas, read a short email from the prisons bureau.