The Provincial Prison for women in Barcelona, the main female penitentiary along the First Francoism, was originally a Correccional General de Dones (General Correctional for Women) of the Generalitat de Catalunya (Catalan Government, 1936-1939).
On April 4, the Director General de Prisiones (Head Officer of the Prison Service), Ángel Sanz, went to Les Corts provincial prison to publicise the granting of probation to a few dozen inmates