Emma Coronel, wife of the drug trafficker Joaquín the Chapo Guzmán, spends his days in prison in the United States reading in a cell in which he remains locked up about 22 hours a day in detention center in Alexandria, Virginia.
Lawyer Mariel Colom, who is part of Coronel’s defense team, said she has called for better confinement conditions for her client as prison staff only take Emma out of the sky in the morning to go to an “indoor parlor.”
“Its confinement conditions are still not improving. It is closed most of the day,” the lawyer said.
Colonel, 31, was arrested in February at Dulles International Airport on the outskirts of Washington. accused of participating in an illicit association for trafficking cocaine, methamphetamines, heroin and marijuana.
The United States also accuses him of joining others to help Guzmán Loera escape from the Altiplano prison in Almoloya de Juárez, Mexico, in July 2015.
Colonel does not share cell with other prisoners, said Columbus, who did not answer questions about whether he often talks on the phone with his twin daughters with the Chapo.
“She only gets out of her cell when they take her out into the living room. Nothing more. Unfortunately they don’t offer, there are no, activities available so she can be distracted. it’s reading, ”her lawyer said.
Following Colonel’s arrest, a judge ordered at a hearing that she be temporarily detained while another member of her defense team, attorney Jeffrey Lichtman, explores a possible bail application.
According to U.S. investigators, Colonel passed messages from 2012 to 2014 from Guzmán to other members of the cartel to continue drug trafficking activities while he evaded Mexican authorities.
After the arrest El Chapo, in February 2014, Coronel continued to pass on the messages her husband gave her when she visited him in prison in Mexico, investigators say.
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