Spain
Seen in the press
Read our selection of press reports about this country. This is a short description of prison conditions on a national scale. It gives an account of the preceding year’s events.
España: cuatro de las 12 operaciones contra el yihadismo en 2021 en España tuvieron lugar en cárceles
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España: décadas sin respuesta a miles de denuncias de desaparición forzada, apropiación y/o sustitución de identidad de niños y niñas
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España: ”es injusto y desproporcionado que Pablo Hasél entre en la cárcel”
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Spain: prisons have lowest inmate population in 10 years
According to recently released statistics from the Instituciones Penitenciarias, Spain currently has 47,373 convicted criminals in its prison system. This marks a dramatic 38% decrease from its peak in 2009, when there were 65,500 convicts behind bars. Reforms in Spain’s Criminal Code, including th…Source — Euro Weekly
España: el protocolo antisuicidios en las cárceles
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España: el psiquiátrico penitenciario de Fontcalent se queda sin psiquiatras
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España: una concentración en Bilbao pide durante toda la noche otra política penitenciaria
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España: el gobierno vasco urge a "adaptar la política penitenciaria a la realidad actual"
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Spain: la realidad de las cárceles en la pandemia, cuando los datos esconden la verdad
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Dura crítica del Defensor del Pueblo a la crueldad en las cárceles españolas
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Spain: el Congreso exige al Gobierno una auditoría de las condiciones de las mujeres en prisión
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Spain: ¿te imaginas cómo es la desescalada en una cárcel de Castellón?
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Spain: el coronavirus acaba con las muertes por sobredosis en las cárceles
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Spain: interior inicia la desescalada en el aislamiento de las cárceles
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Spain: las videollamadas llegan a las cárceles
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Spain: las familias de los presos ante la situación de las cárceles por la Covid-19: "ahora la condena es para nosotros”
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Spain: ‘terrified’ prisoners in Mallorca demand to be set free after ‘degrading’ response to Covid-19 that ‘violates their human rights’
PRISONERS locked up in Palma de Mallorca’s Penitentiary Centre have demanded to be set free due to the alleged inhuman treatment suffered during the coronavirus crisis. Lawyers representing convicts at the island’s largest prison have made an official request to government officials asking that the…Source — The Olive Press
Spain: cárceles registran 147 contagiados por coronavirus
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Spain: la ONU urge a liberar los presos "porque las cárceles no son seguras"
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Spain: las cárceles, una "olla a presión"
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Spain: first coronavirus death in Madrid prison in and 38 correctional officers test positive for coronavirus
THE prisoner had underlying chronic illnesses and was serving time at the Estremera prison in Madrid. A Latin American woman of 78 years of age has been the first prisoner to die in Spain due to the coronavirus, after she was evacuated on March 20 to the Arganda del Rey Hospital in Madrid. Furtherm…Source — EuroWeekly
Spain: el síndrome de abstinencia agita las cárceles
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Spain: la situación en las cárceles de Sevilla sin vis a vis y menos drogas
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Spain: justícia pondrá fin a las “zonas ciegas” en las cárceles catalanas
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