Mexican authorities have taken extra security measures to prevent notorious drug cartel leader Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán from making a third escape from prison while he waits to be extradited.

After being discovered and detained on Jan. 8, the Mexican kingpin was sent back to the same Altiplano maximum-security prison he broke out in July 2015. However, this time authorities are going to great lengths to prevent the head of the Sinaloa Cartel from making another prison break.

According to Hola Arkansas, motion sensors have been implemented to monitor his movement, while he is guarded by dogs trained to detect his scent and prison floors have been reinforced with metal rods. Meanwhile, tanks and extra armed vehicles have been deployed to secure the facility and thick concrete walls are being used to prevent an outside attack.

In addition, Mexican officials say El Chapo is being frequently moved to different cells within the prison.

"He is being moved from cell to cell without a pattern... he is only spending hours or a couple of days in the same cell," said Eduardo Sanchez, a Mexican government spokesman. "Since he arrived, he has been in eight different cells."

Despite the additional security measures, some believe El Chapo is still a flight risk.

"The working hypothesis is that he will try to escape again. It's a horse race now between extradition and escape," said Dan Restrepo, a former White House Latin America adviser, to USA Today.

Earlier this month, Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto described Guzmán's second escape from the maximum security prison, which was an embarrassment for Mexico's embattled government, as "a difficult and tense moment."

"But the important thing is that we were able to re-apprehend him," said Peña Nieto, according to CNN. "The most wanted criminal in Mexico, one of the most wanted in the world, was re-apprehended thanks to an intelligence effort and consistent work of the public security forces in our country," the President added.

Although El Chapo has not been heard or seen much since his capture, the Mexican government recently released a new video showing Guzman being fingerprinted, giving a blood sample, taking a mugshot photo, signing documents and being questioned, reports ABC 13.

The 19-minute video also provides details on how the drug lord escaped from prison last July while comparing his facial features from his first arrest in 1993 to the present.

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