Yolanda Saldivar spends most of her time in a small cell at the maximum-security women’s prison due to continued death threats from other inmates, according to The Messenger. Abraham Quintanilla, Selena’s father, told Univision (via Google Translate) he and his family still get letters from prisoners at Mountain View willing to avenge the singer’s death. “I think she is in a safer place now,” he told the broadcaster in 2018, but he believes she would be in danger if she was ever released into the general population.

The sprawling prison facility where Yolanda Saldivar lives encompasses nearly 100 acres, with a working farm and land for cattle grazing, per ABC News. The prison houses other infamous inmates, including the former Dallas police officer and convicted murderer Amber Guyger, who shot and killed her neighbor, Botham Jean, in 2018. When Saldivar’s not in her 6-feet-by-10-feet cell, she is busy working. According to the tabloid Radar Online, a Texas prison press officer said her job was to “pass out food trays from a cart to other offenders in her cell area.” That year, CBS Austin reported Saldivar had petitioned for a new trial after alleging the prosecutor had withheld evidence that would have helped her case, but the state dismissed it. 

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