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"They call them 'spas': this is the prison where the wife of 'El Chapo' Guzmán was transferred

2022-02-22T23:04:15.866Z


Emma Coronel, 32, will have access to visits, calls with relatives, health services, education and sports. These facilities are called "spas in the prison system due to the fact that supervision is very minimal," explains a lawyer.


Emma Coronel, the wife of

El Chapo

Guzmán, will serve her sentence in a minimum security prison in Texas where she will be able to talk with her relatives and have access to educational programs and sports facilities.

According to official data, Coronel will remain in this prison until September 13, 2023.

Carswell Federal Medical Center, where he has been staying since Monday, is located in Fort Worth.

The prison is a facility with a medical center and a minimum security camp.


Carswell Federal Medical Center is located in Tarrant County, Texas.

According to the PrisonPro website, which provides information to family members of people in federal prisons, the minimum security camp has 103 acres of land and 19 buildings.

The prison used to be an Air Force hospital that closed in 1993. A total of 1,237 women are held in this space, of which 976 are in the medical center and 261 in the minimum security camp.

In this penitentiary center, operated by the Federal Bureau of Prisons, the inmates have constant communication with each other and several sleep in the same cell.

According to the code of conduct, Emma Coronel will be allowed to visit and exchange correspondence with family and friends.

She will also be able to benefit from education and employment programs.

Emma Coronel is transferred to a minimum security prison in Texas where she will finish her sentence

Feb. 22, 202202:04

"He has many more visiting privileges, to coordinate phone calls with family members (...)

I don't want to use the word

spa

but they are called

spas

in the prison system because supervision is very minimal

," said attorney Raymon Colón in an interview with Noticias Telemundo.

The mother of the capo's two twin daughters will also have access to laundry spaces, a chapel, as well as a visiting room and a children's area.

Coronel was initially sentenced to three years in prison, after she accepted charges of illicit association to traffic cocaine, methamphetamine, heroin and marijuana;

conspiracy to launder money;

and transactions related to drug trafficking. 


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

[They reinforce the security where they have arrested the former president of Honduras due to the request of the US]

In addition, the federal court of the District of Columbia also sentenced her to five years of probation and the payment of almost 1.5 million dollars.

On February 10, his sentence was reduced from 36 to 31 months and under the clarification by the Bureau of Prisons that Coronel could be released sooner for good behavior and if he undergoes rehabilitation programs.

Coronel has been married to

El Chapo

since 2007 when she was just 18 years old.

Before her sentence was known, she Colonel said that she wants to be recognized as a mother who wants to meet her daughters as soon as possible.

The wife of 'El Chapo' Guzmán will be released from prison several months before her sentence says

Feb. 10, 202200:37

The conditions of

El Chapo

Unlike the prison where his wife is sentenced, the former leader of the Sinaloa cartel is being held in the maximum security prison in Colorado ADX Florence, known as

El Alcatraz de las Rockosas

and the most secure prison in the United States.

Joaquín Guzmán Loera, 62, is serving a life sentence plus 30 years for drug trafficking.

There are 343 inmates in this place, including Ramzi Yousef, responsible for the 1993 attack on the World Trade Center in New York and the Boston Marathon terrorist, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, among others.

El Chapo

is confined in a cell alone, where he spends 23 of the 24 hours a day.

In addition, it is away from external contact.

Emma Coronel: her sentence is reduced and she will be released months ahead of schedule

Feb. 10, 202200:30

[Joaquín 'El Chapo' Guzmán "does have the profile of a criminal," estimates the psychologist who interviewed him]

The cell where Guzmán Loera is held is 7 feet wide and 12 feet long.

His lawyers denounced last year the conditions in which the capo remains.

They said they deprive him of natural light, sleep, access to clean water and exercise.

During his life in Mexico, the drug trafficker was famous not only for his criminal record but also for his escapes from prisons in this country.

The most famous of his took place on July 11, 2015 when he left the Altiplano prison through a tunnel from his shower to the outside.

In this maximum security prison, surveillance is permanent and it is practically impossible for

El Chapo

to attempt an escape.

Source: telemundo

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