I've been to prison several times, always as a guest writer at the adult education centers they usually run. The visit that affected me most was to the youth detention center, which used to be in Trinitat. It was an old, dilapidated facility with thick metal doors. Just being inside already caused me a certain anxiety, and I find the work of the professionals who go there every day admirable. When the buildings are new, like Lledoners or Puig de les Basses, the space is more sterile and the architecture less prison-like, but the knot in your stomach is still there. Especially as you walk in and the doors close behind you, and you put yourself in the shoes of those who never get out. I say the youth detention center affected me the most because it was full of kids who seemed very familiar. In fact, I found some from my neighborhood, who gave me greetings for my brothers, and some didn't want to attend the event because they were embarrassed to be recognized. Among those children were likely career criminals, real movie villains, but I got the impression that many were there because of bad choices, getting involved in illegal activities without really considering the long-term consequences of their actions. The boys from my street who ended up in prison—I knew them—were products of poverty, of parental neglect (boys were street kids and girls were homebound, so the boys were the ones who suffered from sexism), and, in many cases, of drug addiction. I remember Musta, for example, affable and friendly, whose name I came across one day in a short note fromHe 9 NewHe had died of an overdose.

The main suspect in the 2001 murder of Helena Jubany, Santi Laiglesia, was released from Brians 1 prison on Thursday after spending 41 days in pretrial detention. The Barcelona Provincial Court accepted an appeal from his defense to overturn the decision of the investigating judge in the case, who He was sent to pretrial detention on November 28.The judges, like the Sabadell judge investigating the case, believe there is sufficient evidence against Laiglesia, but they think that after 25 years it is unlikely he will attempt to evade justice and do not see it as necessary for him to await trial in prison. He will be able to do so on provisional release, but without his passport – he is prohibited from leaving the country – and with the obligation to appear in court once a month.

JAEM had accumulated eight convictions for robbery when he escaped from prison. The first sentence against him was handed down in 2010, when he was 45 years old: a court in Arenys de Mar sentenced him to two and a half years in prison for robbery with intimidation. A year later, in the summer of 2011, the same court convicted him for seven more robberies. In some cases, he had broken into the victims' homes—injuring two of them—and in one instance, he even entered the residence armed. Ten years later, on February 7, 2021, JAEM, then 56 years old and having escaped from Quatre Camins prison, broke into the home of a 96-year-old woman in Calella to rob her and ended up stabbing her to death. Now, the man has accepted the charges and a 25-year prison sentence.

Tomorrow the ARA will turn 15, and today might be a good day to explain some of that analysis. It's very simple: when you sit down first thing in the morning to analyze the news, you have to use several lenses: the microscope, to see details that might go unnoticed but are and will be fundamental; the wide-angle lens, to see everything in its entirety; and the telescope, to see further and gain perspective. And then, after everything has been recounted and debated, you have to choose and prioritize the facts. Well, today, after examining the most important news stories from every angle, I've come to the conclusion that I can only tell you that this is a stinking mess.

Two weeks ago, we told you here that Salvador Illa's government saw a financing agreement with María Jesús Montero as close as possible, because Pedro Sánchez had ordered the pace of negotiations to be accelerated to reach an agreement before the end of this year. Sánchez had an incentive to do so: the PSC (Spanish Socialist Workers' Party) is essential for him to be able to win the elections, and Esquerra (Republican Left) is essential for his investiture.

Over the past seven weeks People have been remanded in custody for allegedly starting fires that plagued Galicia, Castilla y León, and Extremadura this August, according to data from the High Courts of Justice in these regions. However, since the beginning of June, more than fifty arrests have been made across the country for causing fires, according to the Ministry of the Interior's tally. Furthermore, 142 people have been investigated for the same reason since the beginning of summer.

It's no longer news that Donald Trump delights in mocking people and is producing a presidency that offends human feelings. We already know that Trump enjoys frightening and shocking. But since the actions of a US president have echoes, imitators, and, likely, heirs, we can't consider the construction of Alligator Alcatraz and the obscene comments with which he has presented it as just another anecdote of his presidency.

In 1963, the Barcelona Provincial Women's Prison opened in the Trinidad neighborhood. More than 7,000 women passed through it during the dictatorship, accused of crimes against property or morality, or for being part of opposition movements and groups. Carlota Falgueras (Barcelona, ​​1950) was one of them. It was closed when she was eighteen years old for participating in a demonstration. Together with historian César Lorenzo, they have just published the book Trinidad: The Ignored Women's Prison 1963-1983, published by Memorial Democràtic, an investigation that gathers the testimonies of nearly forty women who experienced and knew prison from different contexts.

Japan is beginning to open up about drugs: the country is further tightening its zero-tolerance policy on narcotics. Since last December, consuming marijuana is no longer just a social taboo or a legal gray area: it's a criminal offense. At the end of March, Tokyo police arrested two people for the first time—a 44-year-old man and a woman—accused of using cannabis after failing a urine test.

One year after the murder of two prison guards in an ambush to free a drug trafficker During a transfer, France is about to inaugurate the first maximum security prison where it will transfer its 100 most dangerous drug traffickers this summer. The prison will not only be full of surveillance cameras and all kinds of technology to prevent the entry of cell phones and weapons or the flying of drones, but the prisoners will also be subjected to much harsher conditions than in any other French penitentiary. Paris has been inspired by the Italian anti-mafia model.

Mediaset's digital platform, Mitele, has launched a video podcast hosted by Ana Rosa Quintana's son. Álvaro Rojo Quintana is a criminal lawyer by profession and runs his own law firm. He has the appearance of a young, conservative Madrid native, resembles his mother, has a more discreet manner, and an amateurish demeanor in front of the camera. During a murder trial in which Rojo was acting as the defense attorney, he met Juan Manuel Medina Andrés, the prosecution attorney and a regular contributor to television magazines. From that encounter, a personal connection was born and the idea of creating a program together has now become a reality. My days in prison These are half-hour interviews with prominent prisoners who recount their experiences behind bars. The series opens with Ángel María Villar, former president of the Spanish Football Federation, who spent ten days in prison in 2017. Former Barça president Sandro Rossell will be another guest. illustrious It's more flexible, because the rest of the interviewees aren't particularly well-known or media-savvy.

The new judicial vaudeville of the judge Pablo Llarena against former president Carles Puigdemont has not even lasted twenty-four hours. Jailed upon arrival in Alghero on Thursday night, the Catalan leader in exile has left this Friday afternoon in freedom without precautionary measures, with the possibility, therefore, to return to circulate in Europe (except the Spanish state) without impediments. The persecutory anxiety of the judge of the Supreme Court with the pro-independence political leader has long since taken on a grotesque air. Every step he takes is a setback. It seems that Llarena, obsessed, does not at all appreciate the disrepute in which he is bringing the Spanish justice system into disrepute. Otherwise, he would stop firing procedural shots, most of which end in fiasco. This time he wanted to play cat and mouse with the European arrest warrant, which he should have withdrawn - but did not - in order to catch Puigdemont in the act. As a result, once again Llarena has seen, in this case at the hand of an Italian judge, how the Catalan MEP emerged triumphant from his fleeting passage through a night behind bars: "Spain never misses an opportunity to make a fool of itself", said Puigdemont once free.

Section 30 of the Madrid's High Court has suspended the imprisonment of the 14 neo-fascists who assaulted Blanquerna cultural centre in Madrid on September 11, 2013. They are sentenced to sentences ranging from 2 years and 7 months in prison to 2 years and 9 months after the Supreme Court reduced halved the sentences. Of the 14 members, 10 have appealed to the Constitutional Court, two have asked for a pardon and two more are on the run. The Madrid High Court argues that they have to wait to see how the appeal they have presented to the Constitutional Court turns out. Their imprisonment was imminent.

Not even half an hour had passed since the arrest of Pablo Hasél and his name was already trending on Twitter. The rapper, who was arrested this morning by the Catalan police, has quickly become a trending topic with a multitude of messages calling for his release and in defence of freedom of expression