Freedom deprivation means any form of detention or imprisonment or placement of a person in a public or private detention place that s/he cannot leave at his/her own will, by decision of any judicial, administrative or other authority. The following are detention places or, as the case may be, places where the People’s Advocate Institution exercises its powers on torture prevention: ● penitentiaries, including hospital penitentiaries; ● educational centres, detention centres, preventive detention and arrest centres; ● residential services for minor people who have committed crimes and are not criminally responsible; ● psychiatric hospitals and for safety measures and psychiatric hospitals; ● transit centres; ● centres for the accommodation of aliens in public custody subordinated to the General Inspectorate for Immigration; ● special centres for the reception and accommodation of asylum applicants subordinated to the General Inspectorate for Immigration; ● centres where support services are provided to drug users in a closed system; ● any other place meeting the requirements for a detention place or included in the health system or the social care system. Moreover, monitoring also refers to private detention places, and, “if the visited institution does not comply, the People’s Advocate or the deputy of the People’s Advocate for the field regarding prevention of torture in detention places, as the case may be, shall notify this to the hierarchically superior authority or the local or central public administration authority that issued the operating permit, forprivate detention places and may take action based on the provisions of the Law and the Rules of Organization and Operation of the People’s Advocate Institution (art. 44 par. (3) of Law no. 35/1997, republished). Therefore, the centres in the social assistance system, i.e. the centres for elderly persons in the presented case, are subject to the monitoring of the field regarding prevention of torture (NPM), considering: 1. the compliance with art. 4 of OPCAT and art. 34 par. (1) of Law no. 35/1997, republished, i.e.: the existence of a decision of a legal, administrative or other kind of authority, respectively the request or with the explicit or implicit approval of the individual 2. the inclusion in the social assistance system, as listed by art. 34 (j) of Law 35