CAT/OP/ROU/1/Add.1 There are 88 protocols in place in total, having the purpose to implement programs and actions to contribute to the social reinsertion of inmates. 6. Security classifications Para. 96 – Minors’ situation in Iaşi prison In the prison system, the persons against whom the measure of confinement in a prison was applied are under custody and perform activities separately from the persons convicted to imprisonment punishments, to whom specific norms are applied as according to their category. For this category, the administration of Iaşi Penitentiary allocated the E9 section. At the time of the SPT visit, within E8 (maximum security) section, there was a section for the minors in transit (for a period of maximum 10 days), in order for them to be presented before the courts. Following the SPT recommendations, the minors in transit were reallocated within section E9. Para. 97 – Reviwing the classification system of detainees into different regimes In a legal sense, by serving sentences regime we refer to the total number of rules, rights, obligations, programs and activities aiming at a good cohabitation in order to encourage behaviours, attitudes and abilities which could influence the social reintegration of inmates. The imprisonment punishments are executed in one of the following regimes: maximum security, closed, semi-open and open. The applicable legal norms set up a progresive and regresive system of serving sentences, the inmates having the possibility to move from one to the other, according to law. The progressive system means that the person moves from an executional regime to a lesser severe one and the regressive one means that he/she moves to a more severe executional regime. In each penitentiary, a commission for establishing, individualization and changing the regime of execution of custodial sentences is set up, consisting of: the director of the prison, who is also chairman of the commission, the head of department or of the office for the application of the regimes and the head of the education department or office or the head of the psycho-social assistance department or office. The Commission for establishing, individualization and changing the serving of sentence regime carries on its activity, as a rule, once a week. The serving of sentence regime is established by the above mentioned commission, at its first meeting, after the completion of the period of quarantine and observation or after the application of the provisional regime. When determining the regime of execution the following criteria are considered: a) b) c) d) e) the duration of the custodial sentence; the risk level of the convicted person; the criminal record; the age and health condition of the convicted person; the conduct of the convicted person, positive or negative, including in the previous detention periods; f) the identified needs and abilities of the convicted person, necessary for the inclusion in the educational programs, psychological assistance and social assistance programmes; g) the availability of the convicted person to perform work and to participate in educational, cultural, therapeutic, psychological counselling and social assistance activities, moral-religious, school education and professional training activities. Changing the serving of sentence regime is ordered by the same commission. The commission has the obligation to examine the conduct of the convicted person 34

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