The Ministry of the Interior in favor of the transfer of the provincial prison – GuadalajaraDiario.es

Minister Grande Marlaska has assured that work is being done on this project

The Guadalajara prison has been closed and unused for years / Archive

Fernando Grande Marlaska, Minister of the Interior, referred to today on his visit to Guadalajara to the future of the old provincial prison located on Virgen del Amparo street.

To questions from journalists, the minister confirmed that there are contacts with the city council for the transfer of this infrastructurenoting that heThe assignment will be made “in the general interest of the citizens.” For the minister, there is good coordination between administrations in this regard.

For his part he mayor of Guadalajara, Alberto Rojo, regretted not having been able to end the legislature with a project for the building “I would have liked these years to have ended with a better project for the Guadalajara prison”– he pointed out – acknowledging that it has been necessary to give priority to the GEO headquarters whose draft has been presented today.

In any case, the mayor has ensured that work continues to give it a utility in which the public and private initiative would participate– has revealed. Rojo also recalled that it was thought to locate the Integrated Vocational Training Center in that space, which was finally taken to the Hospitality School “We had options with a base, but the times have not been good “– has declared.

Building of the old women’s prison/ Archive

women’s prison

On the other hand, it has advanced that In the coming days, the project to reform the old women’s prison will be presented.s, located a few meters from Paseo de las Cruces, where a leisure center for the elderly will be located. In this case the ministry has already ceded its use so they can start working on their remodel. A reform that will be carried out, in part, with European funds.

The Integrated Vocational Training Center will no longer go to the provincial prison

The women’s prison is already owned by the Guadalajara City Council