The Pope has reserved the two small-format, more intimate events for the second and last day of his visit to Barcelona to meet with vulnerable groups. In the morning, he met with about eighty inmates at the Brians 1 prison, in Sant Esteve Sesrovires, before heading to the monastery of Montserrat. In the afternoon, he chose the modest church of Sant Agustí, in the heart of Barcelona's Raval, on his way to the central event of the blessing of the Sagrada Família's tower of Jesus. It was, therefore, a day marked, on the one hand, by two great symbols of Catalan spirituality and, on the other, by two points where current social problems are felt.

One of the Pope's stops in Catalonia will be at Brians 1 prison, in Sant Esteve Sesrovires. With a little more than a week to go before the visit, a group of 14 human rights defense entities has written a letter to Leo XIV warning him of the state of the Catalan prison system, which they say "shows signs of clear regression". Regarding Brians 1 specifically, they add that in recent years it is the prison "that has received the most complaints for alleged mistreatment, isolation practices, mechanical restraints, and also suicides, which are often a consequence of them".

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.