List of prisons in Spain

Spain has a total of 92 prisons, also called penitentiary centers or penitentiary establishments.[1] They report to the General Secretariat for Penitentiary Institutions, a department of the Ministry of the Interior, with the exception of those located in the regions of Catalonia and the Basque Country, due to the delegation of powers from the Spanish government in 1984[2] and 2021,[3] respectively. Social insertion centers are not included.[2] There are only two penitentiary psychiatric hospitals in Spain, one in Seville and the other in Foncalent (Alicante).[4]

  1. ^ "Centros Penitenciarios". ACAIP - Agrupación de los Cuerpos de la Administración de Instituciones Penitenciarias. 2018. Archived from the original on 7 September 2018. Retrieved 2018-09-16.
  2. ^ a b "Serveis penitenciaris". Departament de Justícia (in Catalan). Retrieved 2021-11-20.
  3. ^ "Iñigo Urkullu no frena el éxodo de funcionarios de prisiones tras asumir las competencias y tiene ya 82 vacantes". ELMUNDO (in Spanish). 2022-01-19. Retrieved 2022-03-24.
  4. ^ Mata, Alejandro (2021-06-21). "España resucita los manicomios prohibidos con este macrocentro psiquiátrico de 70.000 m²". El Confidencial (in Spanish). Retrieved 2021-11-20.