Dios mío! Chapo plays jail martyr

EL CHAPO really doesn’t like being locked up.

Extradited Mexican druglord Joaquin (El Chapo) Guzman has to deal with the toughest jail rules of any prisoner in America right now — including the feds denying him access to a Spanish-speaking priest, his defense team argued Wednesday.

Guzman (photo), a twotime escape artist from Mexican prisons, isn’t allowed to shake hands with his lawyers and can’t buy bottled water. The notorious drug kingpin can’t even tell if it’s day or night in his solitary confinement cell, the lawyers charged.

Last week, prosecutors said the tight rules needed to stay intact — and brushed off a claim Guzman was starting to hear things.

Guzman was just hearing a jail staffer’s radio, they argued. Not so, said Guzman’s lawyers, “unless that radio was Mexican music, Mr. Guzman is hearing nonexistent sounds.”

Guzman — accused of running a massive, murderous drug trafficking operation — has it worse than the hardest convicted criminals being held at the Colorado federal prison known as Supermax, the defense said in papers filed in Brooklyn Federal Court.

At least those guys get to watch TV in their cells and exercise outside with other inmates, noted lawyers Michelle Gelernt, Michael Schneider and Edward Zas.

Guzman, 59, works out by himself in his Metropolitan Correctional Center cell and only recently got to watch DVDs that jail staff would let him watch, they said. Guzman’s attorneys asked Brooklyn Federal Judge Brian Cogan to allow the human rights organization Amnesty International the ability to inspect his jail conditions.

When the defense first asked Cogan for the rule changes, including permission for Guzman to speak with his wife and his release to the general jail population, they said their client was starting to lose it.