The Cárcel del Saladero (English: The Saladero Prison) also known as Cárcel de Villa, was a

prison A prison, also known as a jail, gaol (dated, standard English, Australian, and historically in Canada), penitentiary (American English and Canadian English), detention center (or detention centre outside the US), correction center, correc ...

in the Spanish city of

Madrid Madrid ( , ) is the capital and most populous city of Spain. The city has almost 3.4 million inhabitants and a metropolitan area population of approximately 6.7 million. It is the second-largest city in the European Union (EU), and ...

, operational during the 19th century. The name of the prison arose from its original use for bacon salting (''saladero de tocino'').

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