Overview
- The inmate, convicted of murdering 11 residents at La Caritat in Olot, is now housed in the women’s unit at Puig de les Basses after starting hormone therapy and completing a legal name change.
- Prison staff followed a staged process that included psychological support, assessment in a vulnerable-inmate unit, a period in a smaller module, and then transfer to the women’s wing.
- Legal experts and lawyers for victims’ families stress the identity change does not alter the 127-year term, which by law caps time served at about 40 years, nor does it restore previously denied permits or third-grade status.
- Health officials plan any gender-affirming surgery in an external public hospital, and prison sources say the inmate is on a waiting list for the procedure.
- A women’s advocacy group has protested the placement and called for repealing Spain’s 2023 self-identification law, turning the case into a broader fight over prison housing rules and gender policy.