The prison that Emma Coronel would go to will be very different from that of 'El Chapo' Guzmán

Emma Coronel, wife of Mexican drug trafficker Joaquín

Guzmán, was sentenced this Tuesday by a federal court of the District of Columbia to three years in prison for conspiracy, money laundering and transactions related to drug trafficking.

The judge, Rudolph Contreras, who passed a sentence that includes the seizure of assets for almost 1.4 million dollars, will now decide in which jail Emma Coronel, 32, who is the mother of the two twin daughters of

"It's

," attorney Joseph Malouf told the program HoyDía de Noticias Telemundo.

"And it [is also going to be] a women's prison," she added, "a place where there are no criminals as serious as murderers. It is going to be a place of medium security."

Emma Coronel Aispuro, wife of Joaquín 'El Chapo' Guzmán, leaves Brooklyn Federal Court during the trial in the Brooklyn district of New York on February 5, 2019.Jeenah Moon / REUTERS

Those incarceration conditions would be very different from those of her husband, who has been imprisoned since 2019 in a maximum security facility in Florence, Colorado, known as the "safest" prison in the United States and perhaps the entire world.

There are about

, in a regime of solitary confinement for 23 hours a day.

The cells also have double security doors so that the prisoners do not have contact with the guards.

Coronel, meanwhile, had been detained since February 2021 in a jail in Alexandria, in the state of Virginia.

There she remained

and could only dedicate herself to "reading," according to Mariel Colón, a lawyer for her defense team, to The Associated Press news agency.

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Colón said that Coronel only left the cell at dawn and was taken to a "

."

"Unfortunately they don't offer, there are no activities available for you to distract yourself," he said, "the only thing you can do while you're in your cell is read."

Colón said he did not remember the title of the book that Coronel was reading.