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, penitentiary, detention center, correction center, correctional facility, or remand center, is a facility where Prisoner, people are Imprisonment, imprisoned under the authority of the State (polity), state ...

in the Spanish city of

Madrid Madrid ( ; ) is the capital and List of largest cities in Spain, most populous municipality of Spain. It has almost 3.5 million inhabitants and a Madrid metropolitan area, metropolitan area population of approximately 7 million. It i ...

, 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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