Inside The 5 Star Prison Pablo Escobar Built for Himself. Imagine being told you’re going to jail. Scary stuff, right? Well, imagine you were so powerful that you could dictate what this prison would actually look like. Sound too good to be true? Unfortunately, none of us are that powerful, and the people who are indeed aren’t watching a video like this. Still, there are people out there that have been able to rewrite their circumstances to benefit themselves. However, that list is short, very short, and one such man is the infamous Pablo Escobar.

One might argue that Pablo Escobar doesn’t need an introduction, considering the amount we already know about the man thanks to endless television series depicting the famous cartel boss. Regardless, to understand how we get to the point where Pablo Escobar lives inside a unique and baffling 5 Star Prison of his own design, we need to explore the context of Escobar’s situation that resulted in him being arrested in the first place.