Eastern Region

October 2018 – by Lucia Petrescu from the National Administration of Penitentiaries, Romania Romanian National Administration of Penitentiaries implements, in cooperation with other 6 organizations from 4 countries (Portugal, Romania, Lithuania and Great Britain) worked on the project called ‘European Interaction … Read More

October 2018 – Mioveni Penitentiary, Romania Let’s improvise! What started with these 3 words, turned into 3 weeks of emotions, creativity and passion, shared by actors and discovered by inmates. It is well known that imprisonment demands emotional repression or … Read More

October 2018, Bistrița Penitentiary, Romania The Erasmus+ Key Action 2 Project, “EDUCATE: Educators for inclusive and effective reintegration for inmates”, launched in November 2016 and addresses the challenge for a more inclusive and effective reintegration of inmates. As a Strategic … Read More

When education transcends a prisons` bars, punishment becomes lore and time wins new valency. Thereby, given that evolution depends on knowledge, the Romanian prison system celebrates, day after day, education, this toilsome journey from darkness to light. Seeing that an … Read More

The art was always an excellent means of expression the feelings, a precious instrument and in the same time an ally of the prison worker to support the people in custody to express their concerns and thoughts. The inmate’s involvement … Read More

Activities dedicated to the International Day of Prison Education will be performed in all the units of the prison system on Thursday, October 13th, 2016. The National Administration of Penitentiaries in Romania has supported E.P.E.A endeavours to celebrate the International … Read More