Let’s call 2015 the Year of the Mind-Boggling Prison Escape.

Two men broke out of a New York maximum-security lockup a few weeks ago. They were the first escapees ever in the century-old prison. One of them was shot to death; the other was captured and has been returned to prison.

Now comes the escape of Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman from a maximum-security prison in Mexico.

This one might be even more amazing.

Guzman has busted out of the prison for the second time. He is one of Mexico’s most notorious drug dealers. He’s very rich. He’s also very dangerous.

http://news.yahoo.com/mexico-hunts-drug-lord-prison-tunnel-escape-052044606.html

Mexican authorities have been embarrassed in the extreme over this breakout. Guzman now becomes the most wanted man in Mexico.

Just as the New York prisoners — Richard Matt and David Sweat — had help from the inside, it appears Guzman had similar help to enable him to dig a tunnel nearly a full mile from under his cell.

Here’s a chance for the United States to lend its considerable intelligence and law enforcement capability to Mexico, which doesn’t really lack the resources. But this guy is a seriously bad dude.

And the Mexican corrections establishment needs to do some ultra-serious examination of a system that enabled one of the world’s most heinous drug kingpins to escape this prison — again!