El Chapo said he is being “turned into a zombie” by a brutal prison regime.
He can apparently “no longer take this situation” and is begging to be moved to the US.
The drug lord was rearrested after a violent shootout in January after he escaped from prison seven months ago.
His new cell at the Altiplano prison – the same jail he broke free from last July – is being tracked by motion sensors and dogs who are specially trained to detect his scent.
According to his lawyer, Jose Refugio Rodriguez said El Chapo told him to “try to get me extradited as fast as possible”.
Mr Rodriguez also stated his client is now suffering from sleep deprivation because prison officials wake him up every four hours to make sure he’s still in his cell.
The lawyer added: "Not allowing someone to sleep is an act of torture.
“I saw a desperate man, a dejected man.
“I found him very discouraged and in a very serious state of health.”
The floor of the cell has been reinforced with steel rods to stop the drug kingpin digging his way out, while he is being moved from cell to cell every few days to keep his location within the facility a mystery to would-be conspirators.
Eduardo Guerrero, head of Mexico’s prison system, defended the prison’s treatment of El Chapo.
He said: "This protocol in which attendance is called every four hours at night means that the inmate is woken up once for proof of life.
"We are not violating the rights and guarantees of any internee subjected to this type of security protocol."
Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto has urged the attorney general’s office accelerate the extradition of the drug baron.
However it could be at least one year until the extradition is completed.
El Chapo said he would be willing to plead guilty in the US but only if he is placed in a “medium-security” prison.
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