Mexico's 'Puente Grande' federal prison - made famous by the 2001 escape of convicted drug lord Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman - is to be closed for good.

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• Two times, the first escape was in 2001 while he was in Puente Grande a maximum security prison in Guadalajara in the state of Jalisco, that escape was the famous laundry cart escape. The second time was in 2015 from Almoloya another maximum secur.
• A tunnel through which El Chapo escaped prison. (AP) When Guzman Loera was rearrested in January the following year, Ms Aispuro allegedly planned another escape which ultimately did not take place.
• In 2019, El Chapo was sentenced to life in prison after a three-month trial that took place in New York. He is thought to have been responsible for between 2,000 and 3,000 murders.

Drug kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, known for repeatedly escaping from Mexican prisons, is now at an escape-proof federal prison in Florence where violent prisoners have gutted enemies. The DOJ alleges that more than just acting as a messenger, Ms Aispuro actively helped plan El Chapo’s spectacular escape from the Altiplano prison in Mexico in 2015 through an underground tunnel.

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The facility, near the western city of Guadalajara, was known for such lax standards that it earned the nickname 'Big Door'.

The federal Public Safety Department did not give a specific reason for the closure, but said it was part of a modernisation effort aimed at ensuring prisoners' rights and rehabilitation.

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It said all inmates currently at the prison will be transferred to other facilities.

The complex also houses at least one other state prison although it is not clear if that would remain open.

Guzman was serving a 20-year sentence when he escaped from the prison in 2001, allegedly in a laundry cart.

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According to other versions, he simply paid off prison staff and walked out.

Guzman would remain on the run for another 13 years, before being re-arrested and escaping another Mexican prison through a tunnel.

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He was finally re-apprehended, extradited to the United States in 2017 and sentenced to life behind bars in 2019.

But the Puente Grande complex continued making news earlier this year.

In May seven prisoners were killed and nine others were injured during violence and gunfights.

Officials did not explain how the inmates got the two guns used in the fight.

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The killings followed a prison baseball game, but it was not clear if that was related to the dispute.