'El Chapo' wants to have privileges in prison, requests visits from his wife and calls with his daughters

Joaquín 'El Chapo' Guzmánthe famous drug dealer Mexican currently serving a life sentence in a maximum security prison in Colorado, has submitted a request to federal judge Brian Cogan in New York to have his rights restored. prison privileges.

In a letter dated March 20 and delivered this week to the court, Guzman requests the restoration of visits from his wifeEmma Coronel, and her two daughters to prison.

Guzmán, who was convicted in 2019 of running the Sinaloa drug cartel, seeks that his daughters can visit him during their school holidays in Mexico, since currently they can only do so during that period. Furthermore, it requests that the phone calls regular meetings that she had with her daughters twice a month, which were interrupted in May 2023.

The application includes a handwritten letter sent personally by Guzman to Judge Cogan. In this letter, Guzmán asks that allows you to receive family visits and resume communications with their loved ones, expressing their desire to maintain these emotional ties despite their circumstances.

“I'm sorry for bothering you again with the request I made before regarding my wife, Emma Coronel (…) I ask you to please authorize her to visit me now bring my daughters to visit mesince my daughters can only visit me when they are on school holidays, since they are studying in Mexico”he wrote in the letter to the judge, according to ABC News.

Where is Chapo Guzmán at the moment?

He 'El Chapo' Guzmán serving a life sentence in “Rocky Mountain Gannet”a high-security prison in Colorado, this prison convicts are held in solitary confinement for 23 hours a day.

Joaquín 'El Chapo' Guzmán He was convicted of leading the Sinaloa Cartel, one of the most powerful criminal organizations in Mexico, responsible for importing more than one million kilos of drugs into the United States.

His wife, Emma Coronelalso faced charges related to drug trafficking and was sentenced to 36 months in prison in 2021, she was released on September 13, 2023.

Despite the conviction and being in a maximum security prison, Guzmán continues to seek certain privileges in prison, such as the possibility of maintaining family ties.