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ROMANIAN PRISON SYSTEM

ROMANIAN PRISON SYSTEM. OVERVIEW. Rom a nia Area : 238 391 km² Population: 22 million inhabitants Capital City : Bucharest ( 1,9 million inhabitants) Official language: Roma n ian Religion : Orthodox ( 86,7% of population) Currency: Leu (1 Leu = 0,23 Euro)

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ROMANIAN PRISON SYSTEM

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  1. ROMANIAN PRISON SYSTEM OVERVIEW

  2. Romania Area:238 391 km² Population:22 million inhabitants Capital City :Bucharest(1,9 million inhabitants) Official language:Romanian Religion:Orthodox (86,7% of population) Currency: Leu (1 Leu = 0,23 Euro) National Day:The 1st of December Romanian Prison Staff Day:The 29th of June

  3. SHORT HISTORY • 1380 - There was the first entry about OCNA TROTUŞ - exploitation of salt as underground salt mines where labour was done by “ocnaşi” – usually those who were convicted of robbery, murders, etc. The technique was simple: the convict was lowered into the mine and he was released only when his sentence ends. • 1788 – In Transylvania, under the Austro-Hungarian rule, the provisions of paragraph 61 of criminal procedure, promulgated by Emperor Joseph II, stated that: “every prison must be clean, dry, have enough air and light and be made so that slave’s (prisoner’s) health should not be put in jeopardy”.

  4. SHORT HISTORY • 1851 – Iaşi Prison Rules was drown up and contained the first provision of Romanian System of Law, which prohibits insulting and beating prisoners. By that time also, Anastase Panu, chief of the Ministry of Justice, draw Tg.Ocna Prison Rules. • This opened the Modern Legislation Era in the field of custodial sentences by implementing “Auburian” detention regime and introducing the regulation concerning moral education of prisoners, which was to be done through religious education and the obligation for arrested to learn a job.

  5. SHORT HISTORY • 1969 - At the General Directorate of Penitentiaries, projects of two acts are developed and will later on become Law no. 23/1969 and its implementing Regulation; they were taking into account both Romanian experience preceding the 2nd World War and the recommendations of the Standard Minimum Rules for the Prisoners’ Treatment, adopted by the UN in 1955, with one exception - moral and religious support. • Until the Revolution from 1989, the system had many conception limits, imposed by the official socialist ideology, as the demand that all the inmates should be given back to the society as useful persons, the compulsoriness that the rehabilitation programs to include a large number of political themes.

  6. SHORT HISTORY • 1990 - The breaking off from the communist past allowed the breaking off from the communist education model, with all its implications. • The Law no.21/15.10.1990 meant a new challenge to the prison system. It passes from the Ministry of Interior to the Ministry of Justice, which was a milestone for the further development of the system. • Prison reform began immediately after The General Directorate of Penitentiaries passed under the Ministry of justice and mainly concerned the humanization of detention regime.

  7. SHORT HISTORY • 2004 - On September, 28, Law no.293/2004 regarding the Statute of Civil Servants of the National Penitentiary Administration came into force, the legislative act which stipulated the demilitarization of the Prison Staff. • 2006 - Law no.275/2006 regarding the execution of sentences and measures ordered by judicial authorities during the criminal trial was adopted. This provides a modern development of the activity concerning appliance of sentences and aligning Romanian prison system to European standards.

  8. ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE – CENTRAL APPARATUS GENERAL DIRECTOR Deputy GeneralDirector Deputy GeneralDirector Deputy GeneralDirector Public Relation and Media Office Emergency Situations Management Division Organisation-Mobilisation Division Cabinet and General Registry Department Classified Information Department Advisors Division Prevention of Crime and Terrorism Directorate Litigation and Elaboration of Normative Acts Directorate Human Resources Management Directorate Social Reintegration Directorate Security of Detention and Penitentiary Regime Directorate Information Technology and Communication Directorate Labour Protection Division Personnel Psychology Department Cooperation and Programs Department Penitentiary Inspection Directorate Economic and Administrative Department Medical Directorate Prevention of Crime and Terrorism Directorate Cabinet and General Registry Department Organisation-Mobilisation Division Advisors Division Cooperation and Programs Department Classified Information Department Public Relation and Media Office Penitentiary Inspection Directorate Emergency Situations Management Division Litigation and Elaboration of Normative Acts Directorate Human Resources Management Directorate Information Technology and Communication Directorate Security of Detention and Penitentiary Regime Directorate Economic and Adm Department Social Reintegration Directorate Medical Directorate Personnel Psychology Dept Labour Protection Division

  9. ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE – SYSTEM UNITS National Administration of Penitentiaries – Central Apparatus Detention Units Guard and Escort of TransferedInmates Subunit The Supply, Husbandry and Repair Unit Training Units Prisons (32) Training Centre for Prison Officers (Arad) Prisons for women (1) Prisons for minors and young people (2) Re-educational Centres for minors (3) National Correctional Officers Training School (Tîrgu Ocna) Hospital Prisons (6)

  10. PERSONNEL STRUCTURE Personnel provided in - 15.434 organizational chart Employed personnel- 12.067 • Civil servants with special statute: • Officers - 1.890 • Correctional officers- 9.626 • Contractual personnel- 551 78%Appointed posts Number of Employees / Inmatesratio = 1 / 2,28

  11. -31 prisons - 6 hospital prisons - 3 Re-education centres - 3 prisons for minors and young people - 1 prison for women - Training units

  12. PERSONNEL STRUCTURE OFFICERS Penitentiary Quaestor Penitentiary Chief comissioner Penitentiary Comissioner Penitentiary Sub-comissioner Penitenciary Chief inspector Penitentiary Inspector Penitentiary Sub-inspector

  13. PERSONNEL STRUCTURE Correctional Officers Penitentiary Chief Agent Penitentiary Main Chief Agent Penitentiary Main Agent Penitentiary Agent Penitentiary Deputy Chief Agent

  14. INMATES STATISTICS Number of inmates in 31December 2012 114,44%occupancy index

  15. INMATES STATISTICS Distribution of inmates according to prison regimes 31 December 2012

  16. INMATES STATISTICS Distribution of inmates according to age 31 December 2012

  17. INMATES STATISTICS Distribution according to duration of custodial sentence 31 December 2012

  18. Progressive decentralization of decision up to the regional level. Strategic Management Group.Regional co-ordination prisons

  19. Social Reinsertion The individualization of the punishment execution regimeand the particularized approach of the psycho-social intervention is achieved by: Psycho-social intervention activities: • Psychological evaluations • Social evaluation • Psychologicaland social counseling • Psychologicaland social assistance programs Educational activities: • School training • Professional training • Educational programs • Informative educational activities • Sport activities • Activitiesin community

  20. Directorate for Social Reinsertion The education activities reached a qualitative and quantitative development, placing the accent on the person and his rehabilitation potential. The main activities: • School training • Professional training • Informative educative activities • Sport activities • Activities in community • Therapeutic activities • Social assistance activities • Psychological intervention activities

  21. Schooling activity

  22. Professional training activity

  23. Participation in recreational sports activities

  24. Activities carried on in the community

  25. NATIONAL PRISON SYSTEM STRATEGY 2009-2013 VISION: We will develop a safe public service for community based on prison staff members’ professionalism, integrity and loyalty, as well as on the observance of prisoners’ fundamental rights.

  26. Social Rehabilitation • Creating an organizational subunit designed to carry out analyses, syntheses, studies and interpretation; • Elaborating and implementing a unitary system of assessment and intervention; • Drawing up and promoting a national strategy aimed at prisoners’ social re-entry; • Developing partnership with non-governmental organizations and local communities, which will result in facilitating inmates’ social rehabilitation; • Creating a partnership between the Romanian prison service and the EU prison structures, facilitating the exchange of good practices and the development of a joint regulatory framework in the European penal system.

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