Inside Pablo Escobar's posh prison La Catedral with prostitutes and mercenaries
dailystar.co.ukdrug lord Pablo Escobar was the richest and most famous criminal in the world - but he was also the most dangerous.Throughout the 1980s, Escobar and his bloodthirsty sicarios (assassins) had waged war on the Columbian government and its people to fight off threats of extradition to the US for the crimes.In a bloody conflict, Escobar's hitmen targeted everyone from politicians and policemen to innocent civilians, with over 5,000 people dying at his hands.
Such was El Patron's power when in 1991 he finally decided to turn himself in he did it on his own terms in a custom-built prison that was every bit as extravagant as you might expect from a man who earnt over $1 million dollars a day.Under the terms of his "surrender", Escobar agreed to spend five years in a prison that he would build himself: La Catedral.
Whilst there, Escobar was allowed to choose the guards who protected the prison as well as who would be imprisoned with him and Columbian authorities weren't allowed within three miles of the complex.
The drug lord chose a spot high up on the hills overlooking Medellin and in June 1991 he moved in with his own private army at his disposal.
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