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Prison overcrowding continues to be an acute and persistent problem in a significant number of European prison administrations, according to the Council of Europe's Annual Penal Statistics on Prison Populations (SPACE I) for 2023, released…

The Covid-19 pandemic contributed to reducing the prison population in Europe between January 2020 and January 2021, consolidating a ten-year-long trend in most European states, according to the Council of Europe's Annual Penal Statistics…

President Klaus Iohannis has promulgated on Thursday the law that repeals the controversial compensatory appeal that released on parole tens of thousands of inmates before serving the full jail time, with some hundreds committing new…

The Ombudsman has notified the Constitutional Court in regard to one of the provisions of Law no. 254/2013 on serving sentences and deprivation of liberty, saying that the suspension of the right to visits violates the right to intimate,…

Communist torturer Alexandru Visinescu has died on Monday, aged 93, at the Rahova Penitentiary Hospital. The first penitentiary commander to be sent to court, was sentenced in 2016 by the High Court of Cassation and Justice (ICCJ –…

Aka the ‘white haired, white bearded stranger’, as if descending from a wizard tale, British JOHN ROW, writer, poet, storyteller, has kindly granted us an interview, talking about the importance of storytelling and its impact on children or…

The National Penitentiary Administration (ANP) has ordered last week the emergency eviction of 450 inmates from a wing of the penitentiary in Iasi. Penitentiary trade unions say that the building has a high risk of collapse in case of…

The penitentiary trade unions has criticized again the Justice minister’s intention to ‘compensate’ the inmates imprisoned during 2012-2017, saying that will cost the state budget from EUR 370 M to EUR 550 M. “The justice minister’s…

Justice minister’s new proposal to table a bill through which former inmates who were imprisoned in improper conditions during June 2012-October 2017 should benefit of compensation mounting to EUR 5-8 for each detention day have stirred…

Update: Four employees of the Rahova penitentiary hospital have been detained and other four are under house arrest in a violence case against inmates. The director of the Rahova penitentiary hospital is investigated for having aggressed…