La cárcel de mujeres de Málaga en la paz de Franco

Abstract

This article aims to show the situation of Málaga women’s jail since the town was occupied on February 8th 1937 to 1945. In order to accomplish that goal, we have used the documentary sources kept in the Prisión Provincial, the Archivo Militar Territorial n.º 24, the Municipal Historical Archive and Provincial of Málaga. All those resources are simultaneously compared with oral testimonies. The prison characteristics, the social and professional status, as well as living and conditions are analyzed. An analysis which depict a tragic world that went beyond the jail walls. As we shall see in the following pages, the prison housed mostly married women with children —who sometimes live with them—. When leaving that space, the new destinations were either the tragic execution, or the transfer to the North of Spain prisons. However, the consequences for themselves and their families in a society that marginalized and subjugated them to a continuous monitoring process did not conclude with the exemptions or the exile, etc.; contrarily, the stigma accompanied them for the rest of their lives.