Prison Memoirs

Memòries de presó (Prison Memoirs) (1988–1992) is the book in which Núria Cadenes recounts in detail, as she had previously done in Cartes des de la presó (Letters from Prison), her harrowing journey through the Spanish prison system. With unflinching honesty, she exposes the realities of women’s prisons in Spain, revealing the harsh conditions that shaped daily life behind bars. Violence, drugs, abuse, homosexuality, and AIDS are among the most disturbing issues addressed in Cadenes’s powerful testimony, making these memoirs a unique and essential document for understanding what truly took place inside women’s prisons at the end of the twentieth century.