accepted and assumed rules by minors, the penitentiary becomes for them the only "normal" environment of existence. The lack of perspective, social opportunities, no matter how modest, jobs and social stigma are the issues most often raised by children who have been released and returned to detention facilities. The People's Advocate for Children’s Rights urges the State to review the national mechanisms for the protection and integration of children who have served their criminal sentences, so that they meet their vital requirements, in order to become active members of society. The State must develop a protection mechanism, in addition to the post-detention control mechanism established by the National Probation Institution, to help the targeted children to integrate more easily into the social environment. In the context of the analyzed situation, the People's Advocate for Children’s Rights submitts the following RECOMMENDATIONS: - The National Penitentiary Administration is to review the psychological rehabilitation programs for children; - The National Penitentiary Administration will carry out a comprehensive action of monitoring the medical system, in order to eradicate the established deficiencies and to connect the system to international standards; - The National Penitentiary Administration is to strengthen the educational process in penitentiary institutions in order to ensure the continuity of the educational cycle; - The National Penitentiary Administration is to strengthen its efforts in order to promote the maintenance of the connection of convicted and prevented children with the family; - The National Penitentiary Administration will take the necessary measures to eliminate the practice of applying disciplinary punishments by prohibiting visits from relatives, applied to children; - The Ministry of Justice will examine within the reform of the judiciary the opportunity to create level I courts and colleges in specialized courts of appeal for the examination of civil, administrative and criminal cases concerning children. - The Ministry of Justice together with the Ministry of Finance will examine the budgetary policy in order to establish separate budget lines in the budgets of penitentiary 117