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The independence leaders will comply with the penalties imposed by the Supreme Court in the three Catalan prisons where they have been admitted since July 2018, when they were transferred from Madrid to Catalonia after completing the 1-O case investigation.

The main one is the Lledoners prison (Sant Joan de Vilatorrada, Barcelona), where Oriol Junqueras , Joaquim Forn , Jordi Turull , Josep Rull , Raül Romeva , Jordi Sànchez and Jordi Cuixart are interns. In Puig de les Basses (Figueras, Gerona) there is Dolors Bassa and in Mas d'Enric (Catllar, Tarragona), Carme Forcadell .

In the year and a half that has elapsed since they arrived in Catalonia (period that was only interrupted by the celebration of the trial, when they were again transferred to Madrid), the three prisons have become one of the main political nuclei of the Community , especially Lledoners. The volume of authorities that go through prisons is such that it is inevitable to deduce that imprisoned leaders are still essential in making decisions for independence. Particularly in the case of ERC, which has its leader in a Lledoners cell.

In addition, the prisons have become a center of pilgrimage of independence, which has continuously convened concentrations, music festivals or 'castelleras dyads' at their doors. To celebrate the second anniversary of the 1-O there was a torch march to Lledoners and last Christmas there were vigils in the three centers. There are people who come every day to wish "good night" to the inmates or who give them choral songs, concerts or sovereign proclamations. Penitentiary Vigilance has verified "the existence of manifestations at least weekly".

Prison Amenities

The jurisdiction over prisons has been transferred to Catalonia since 1983, so it is the Generalitat responsible for the detention of 1-O prisoners. Last June, on the eve of the sentence, the Government appointed a new director of Lledoners, Susana Gracia , who will be the direct person in charge of the leaders condemned by the Supreme Court.

Lledoners is one of the most modern prisons in Catalonia. Opened at the end of 2008, it is a center that is not at full capacity, since it has 30% of its unoccupied places. This will allow the damned to be in the same module and enjoy individual cells.

The prison has eight penitentiary modules with a hundred inmates. The one that the independence leaders will probably occupy has less occupation than the others and there are only prisoners with short sentences that have not been imposed for violent crimes.

Each module has its own rules for participation and coexistence, and prisoners are assigned assigned tasks, such as cleaning or work in the dining room.

In which the independence leaders will occupy the prisoners also have spaces to receive the many visits that pass through Lledoners, in addition to specific places to read, write and watch television.

Lledoners favor deal

This newspaper has recently published the preferential conditions enjoyed by 1-O prisoners. So far there have been two complaints of officials for the treatment of favor for the independence. The first was in 2018, when an official warned that prisoners celebrated Jordi Sanchez's birthday on October 1, coinciding with the first anniversary of the illegal referendum. The sovereign leaders were in the courtyard that day when the rest of the inmates were in their cells.

The second complaint came a few weeks ago, when the head of Communications of Lledoners denounced that the Deputy Director of Treatment of the center had accompanied Risto Mejide to visit Raül Romeva without the television host going through "any security measure".

Given these complaints, the Generalitat has always assured that there is no treatment of favor for independent prisoners. In fact, what he has done has been to punish the official who made the first complaint. The Minister of Justice, Ester Capella, justified it by saying that the complainant had not complied with an order from a superior to guarantee security in the prison.

Bassa and Forcadell

Both Dolors Bassa and Carme Forcadell will also serve their sentences in prisons opened a few years ago. The two will be in women's modules in centers where there are also men, but separated by courtyards. They will occupy individual cells with showers although with common spaces together with the rest of the interns, in which there is a television. Puig de les Basses, Bassa prison, has a library, workshop room, study room and a swimming pool. The module in which Forcadell is located in Mas d'Enric gives a landscaped area that is the responsibility of the inmates, as well as the cleaning of all spaces.

In Mas d'Enric there are about thirty inmates and the daily life of the former president of the Parliament goes through reading, listening to the news and meditation classes. Dolors Bassa has stressed the importance of the routine in his stay in prison and has said that he is engaged in activities such as yoga or English, in addition to helping other inmates. He has also participated in the jail radio workshops.

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