Prohibit el contacte fisic / No phisic contact
La iconica sala de visites penitenciaries (en aquest cas, de La Model) que tots hem vist en pel·licules i series on surten presons. Abans les reixes metal·liques permetien cert contacte, especialment rellevant per a parelles, pares i fills. Però ara tot s'ha blindat amb vidres gruixuts i interfons. Ho saben prou els presoners politics que formaren el gobern de la Generalitat fins el 2017!
La presó model s’inaugurà el 1904 i va tancar el 2017. Prácticament d’inici ja va perdre aquesta caracteristica de model amb el que fou disenyada (primer motí ja al 1906), i la sobrepoblació de presoners fou constant, així com unes condicions generalment deplorables. Disenyada per a 1000 presos, al 1940 arribà als 13.000! No només és un punt historic per la historia criminal de Catalunya, sino també com a element esencial en la represió política, molt en especialment per part del regim feixista. Nombroses persones foren executades o partiren cap a la seva execució des de la Model (unes 1600). El més famós executat de tots, el darrer, Salvador Puig Antich.
Ara s’ha obert al public i es pot visitar lliurement. Cal aprofitar-ho ja que es preveu que aviat es començaran a tirar a terra el mur perimetral i bona part dels edificis secundaris. La part central, el panoptic i la majoria de galeries es conservaran, però perdran la pàtina original (ronya, de fet), i fotogràficament no serà el mateix.
ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pres%C3%B3_Model_de_Barcelona
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All of us has see this kind of room in prisons in movies or series, the famous visitors room. Initially the barrier between inmates and visitors was a fence, so it was possible somehow to have phisical contact, specially valuable with the family. But afterwards all was caged in security glass & intercomes.
La Model entered service in 1904 and was closed in 2017, after decades of public demands of closure due to the deplorable condition of the inmates and the bad image for the surroundings. As the name suggests, it was intented to be a modelic prison, but although it was a modern design in early XX Century, soon the conditions deteriorated, and the first mutiny was just in 1906. Designed for 1000 inmates, in 1940 it reached a peak of 13.000 inmates, mostly political prisoners of the fascist Franco regime. Hundres left this place in their way to their execution. The last political victim was Salvador Puig Antich, executed in La Model in 1974. In fact La Model is a very important place to understand the history of the political represion in Catalonia, specially by the fascist regime between 1939 and 1978 (and beyond). Also it reflected the criminal and social problems of Barcelona in the XX Century.
Now the former prison is open to the public, but soon will be partly demolished (the surrounding wall and secondary buildings) to made parks, and the main building redeveloped for civic activities and also a history museum. So the time to take pictures is now or never.
es.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%C3%A1rcel_Modelo_de_Barcelona
Prohibit el contacte fisic / No phisic contact
La iconica sala de visites penitenciaries (en aquest cas, de La Model) que tots hem vist en pel·licules i series on surten presons. Abans les reixes metal·liques permetien cert contacte, especialment rellevant per a parelles, pares i fills. Però ara tot s'ha blindat amb vidres gruixuts i interfons. Ho saben prou els presoners politics que formaren el gobern de la Generalitat fins el 2017!
La presó model s’inaugurà el 1904 i va tancar el 2017. Prácticament d’inici ja va perdre aquesta caracteristica de model amb el que fou disenyada (primer motí ja al 1906), i la sobrepoblació de presoners fou constant, així com unes condicions generalment deplorables. Disenyada per a 1000 presos, al 1940 arribà als 13.000! No només és un punt historic per la historia criminal de Catalunya, sino també com a element esencial en la represió política, molt en especialment per part del regim feixista. Nombroses persones foren executades o partiren cap a la seva execució des de la Model (unes 1600). El més famós executat de tots, el darrer, Salvador Puig Antich.
Ara s’ha obert al public i es pot visitar lliurement. Cal aprofitar-ho ja que es preveu que aviat es començaran a tirar a terra el mur perimetral i bona part dels edificis secundaris. La part central, el panoptic i la majoria de galeries es conservaran, però perdran la pàtina original (ronya, de fet), i fotogràficament no serà el mateix.
ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pres%C3%B3_Model_de_Barcelona
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All of us has see this kind of room in prisons in movies or series, the famous visitors room. Initially the barrier between inmates and visitors was a fence, so it was possible somehow to have phisical contact, specially valuable with the family. But afterwards all was caged in security glass & intercomes.
La Model entered service in 1904 and was closed in 2017, after decades of public demands of closure due to the deplorable condition of the inmates and the bad image for the surroundings. As the name suggests, it was intented to be a modelic prison, but although it was a modern design in early XX Century, soon the conditions deteriorated, and the first mutiny was just in 1906. Designed for 1000 inmates, in 1940 it reached a peak of 13.000 inmates, mostly political prisoners of the fascist Franco regime. Hundres left this place in their way to their execution. The last political victim was Salvador Puig Antich, executed in La Model in 1974. In fact La Model is a very important place to understand the history of the political represion in Catalonia, specially by the fascist regime between 1939 and 1978 (and beyond). Also it reflected the criminal and social problems of Barcelona in the XX Century.
Now the former prison is open to the public, but soon will be partly demolished (the surrounding wall and secondary buildings) to made parks, and the main building redeveloped for civic activities and also a history museum. So the time to take pictures is now or never.
es.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%C3%A1rcel_Modelo_de_Barcelona