One of the seven prisons in Madrid, Navalcarnero, is built around a big soccer field of sand and a small pool. A gallery surrounds the playing field and everyone mockingly calls it “the M-30,” like the road that circles the center of Madrid. They have walked along this M-30 of the penitentiary center the dismemberment of Majadahonda, the Galician drug trafficker Laureano Oubiña, seven condemned for the cards black, the nationalist leader Arnaldo Otegi, the violent bank robber Dumbo, the Catalan separatist politician Josep Rull, the elevator rapist, the Colombian hitman Ibrahim Arteaga, two of the brothers Ruiz Mateos. In the Navalcarnero prison there are about 860 inmates, each one with his father and mother. The 35% are foreign. This morning with winter sun, biologists Mar Jabardo and Gema Porta, from the National Museum of Natural Sciences (CSIC), tour the gallery loaded with fossils. They are going to teach a paleontology class.
