Overview

• Montero Cantó is serving a 22-year sentence in Fontcalent prison’s Unidad de Madres Irene Villa, raising her child born in 2023.
• Next year the infant must be handed over to legal guardians under prison rules, at which point Maje will return to Picassent prison.
• The Netflix film 'La viuda negra' attracted over 15 million viewers in its first week and topped charts in more than 50 countries.
• Despite being able to request ordinary prison leave since July 2023, there is no record of her having applied for or received any permissions.
• Spanish law bars her from third-degree status until January 2029 and sets the earliest conditional release at July 2032, with her full sentence ending January 2040.