ABSTRACT
This chapter describes the resettlement realities in Romania combining both the legal requirements and the lived experience of those subject to imprisonment. In the first part, the chapter summarizes the general rules of imprisonment in Romania: prisoner classification, prison regime, work and so on. The second part of the chapter deals with the programmes and interventions that take place in Romania for preparing inmates for release. The role of the post-release services, the existence of halfway houses, the cooperation between different stakeholders and so on are subject to the next sections of this report. The conclusion of this analysis is that release in Romania is a brutal experience that transfers the prisoner from one small prison to a larger one – society. Reasons behind this conclusion are associated with the lack of support services, lack of inter-agency cooperation, irrational use of criminal records and so on.
