Will El Chapo escape again? Hispanic prison gang offers to help notorious drug lord with jail break in video filmed inside California jail after his extradition to America

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A group of inmates offered to help Mexican drug lord Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman escape prison in a video they filmed inside a California correctional facility.

A group of five men, using sunglasses, hats and clothes to conceal their faces, pledged their support to Guzman and bragged about their control over the prison believed to be in Taft, California.

Guzman, who is accused of running one of the world's biggest drug-trafficking operations, was extradited from Mexico to New York last week to stand trial.

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A group of inmates filmed a video inside a California correctional facility, pledging their support to Guzman

After the other men to introduced themselves, their leader 'Chucky' (pictured) said he controlled the prison and pledged to help the cartel leader to escape

The five men delivered their message of support in a three-minute video that surfaced online after Guzman was extradited on January 19.

Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman, center, was transported from a plane to a waiting caravan of SUVs at Long Island MacArthur Airport on January 19 after he was extradited from Mexico

Speaking in Spanish, the five men announced their intentions and said: 'We want to tell the people this: If you bring 'el señor' here and if 'el señor' asks us to free him, we are going to take him out immediately.'

They bragged about having access to women, cell phones and drugs, and said they had control of the entire prison.

The group's leader 'Chucky' also said he had 'bought' the guards at the prison.

He told the leader of the Sinaloa drug cartel: 'Everything is ready for you. What you say is the law. Here you have more than 3,500 soldiers.'

The man seemed certain the drug lord would end up at the facility, but that remains unclear, since Guzman is wanted in six states and faces charges in a number of different judicial districts. 

Federal Bureau of Prisons spokesperson Jill Tyson told the LA Times: 'Upon learning of the video, BOP oversight staff on-site at the facility began working with the contractor to investigate the allegations of irregularities at the facility.'

The low to minimum security prison in Taft is the only facility run by a private corporation in California, according to the bureau's website. 

Guzman has been locked up in the infamous Metropolitan Correctional Center in Manhattan, which was even once compared to Guantanamo Bay

Guzman arrived in a small jet at Long Island's MacArthur Airport on January 19, having traveled from a prison in the northern state of Chihuahua, where his cartel rules.

Guzman pleaded not guilty to charges that he ran the world's largest drug-trafficking organization during a decades-long criminal career.

The indictment in Brooklyn, which includes 17 criminal counts, carries a mandatory minimum sentence of life in prison, Robert Capers, the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of New York, said at a news conference last week.

U.S. prosecutors gave assurances to Mexican officials that they would not seek the death penalty in order to secure his extradition, since Mexico opposes capital punishment.  

As leader of the notorious Sinaloa cartel, Guzman oversaw perhaps the world's largest transnational cocaine, heroin and methamphetamine smuggling operation.

The cartel played a key role in Mexico's decade-long drug war that has killed more than 100,000 people. 

El Chapo was captured a year ago after he had fled a high-security penitentiary in central Mexico through a mile-long tunnel in his second dramatic prison escape.

He is now being held in Manhattan's Metropolitan Correctional Center, MCC, where 9/11 terrorist Ramzi Yousef, crime boss John Gotti and fraudster Bernie Madoff, were all once jailed.  

'I assure you, no tunnel will be built leading to his bathroom,' Special Agent In Charge Angel Melendez of U.S. Homeland Security Investigations said at a news conference.  

In the 10th-floor Special Housing Unit, around a dozen prisoners spend 23 hours a day in 20-by-12-foot cells

Located just south of Chinatown, and built in 1975, the jail has slit-shaped windows with frosted glass to prevent prisoners from getting even a glance at the city below

Located just south of Chinatown, and built in 1975, the jail has slit-shaped windows with frosted glass to prevent prisoners from getting even a glance at the city below. 

A tunnel leads to the adjacent federal courthouse which means inmates can be transported to and from their trial without ever seeing the sun. 

The jail is sandwiched between federal prosecutors' offices and two federal courthouses and is protected by steel barricades that can stop a 7 1/2-ton truck. Cameras capable of reading a newspaper a block away are trained on the area.

Inmates can be transported to court through corridors linked to both courthouses, though Guzman will be ferried to and from court in Brooklyn, a potentially risky job for the U.S. Marshals Service.

In the 10th-floor Special Housing Unit, known by its acronym, the SHU, pronounced like 'the shoe,' around a dozen prisoners spend 23 hours a day in 20-by-12-foot cells, prohibited from communicating with one another. 

It was home to the prison's worst criminals and will most likely be home to El Chapo. 

The notorious jail has housed some of the world's most infamous s criminals including fraudster Bernie Madoff

Dangerous criminals such as 9/11 terrorist Ramzi Yousef (left) and crime boss John Gotti (right) have also called the MCC home

Meals are eaten in cells, and exercise is in a recreation area specifically for these inmates.

To reduce the risk that a wealthy inmate such as Guzman might try to corrupt jail staff, the number of jailers who have access to him will likely be limited and each will undergo extra screenings by top jail officials, Linaweaver said.

The special unit's strict confinement drew criticism in 2011 from the human rights group Amnesty International, which expressed concern that the sparse cells, exercise restrictions and isolation 'amount to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment.'

'It is worse than Guantanamo,' New York attorney Joshua Dratel told Esquire. Dratel has defended several high-profile terrorism suspects once housed at MCC. 'It is about as soul-negating existence as there is in this country in the federal system.'

The jail saw an audacious escape attempt in 1982, when two armed people in a hijacked sightseeing helicopter tried to pluck an inmate off a roof. Four years earlier, three prisoners broke out by cutting through window bars.

Guzman, was transported from his cell in Mexico (pictured) to New York to face his trial

Security there was tightened significantly after Mamdouh Mahmud Salim, described as a right-hand man to bin Laden and awaiting trial in a terrorism case, used a sharpened comb to stab a guard on Nov. 1, 2000. Salim, who later apologized for the stabbing, is serving a life sentence.

Guzman's case doesn't mark the first time federal authorities have grappled with how to hang onto a member of his Sinaloa drug cartel.

Authorities expressed concern that the cartel might attempt to break a son of one of Guzman's cartel partners out of a federal lockup in Chicago in 2011. Of particular concern in that case: A fenced rooftop recreation center officials feared could make a defendant susceptible to sniper fire. The son was moved to a more secure facility.

The facility holds about 700 prisoners who are awaiting trial. 

But El Chapo has posed a particular concern after escaping maximum security prisons in Mexico twice - once by crawling through a tunnel which lead to the jail bathroom in 2014. 

Prior to that escape, he is believed to have escaped by sneaking out in a laundry cart.

Pictured, police vehicles shuttling Mexican drug kingpin Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman across the Brooklyn Bridge from a court appearance in Brooklyn to the MCC on Friday

An armed officer stands guard moments before a motorcade carrying Mexican drug kingpin Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman arrived at the MCC