Regarding visits, the law stipulates the right of the detainee to at least
one visit a month. Nevertheless, depending on the behaviour of the
convicted person, the penitentiary administration can grant additional
visits.
Consequently, depending on his or her behaviour and his or her
attitude towards labour (both remunerated and unremunerated), the
convicted person may benefit from 22 long- and short-term visits
during a year. The penitentiary program includes also educational
training, labour and sport activities etc., which, along with social
assistance granted by the administration, contribute to the reintegration
of the convicted persons into society.
According to articles 227, 228 and 229 of the Execution Code,
detainees have access to information, files, correspondence and
telephone calls and can address correspondence to law enforcement
bodies, central public authorities and international intergovernmental
organizations. Post boxes were installed in all prisons and letters are
collected by employees of the Moldova Post.
A number of deficiencies of conditions of detention have been asserted
in 21 temporary detention facilities (isolators) of the territorial police
commissariats. As a result, relevant letters have been addressed to
commissariats in Balti, Basarabeasca, Cimislia, Soldanesti, Rezina,
Vulcanesti, Comrat, Leova, Orhei, Cahul, Causeni, Anenii-Noi,
Gagauzia and Floresti with deadlines for proper actions to be
undertaken to redress the situation.
Despite the undertaken measures to create decent conditions of
detention, in some temporary detention isolators the situation remains
complicated:
- lack of natural illumination and ventilation in cells (Balti, Bender,
Anenii-Noi, Basarabeasca, Cahul, Causeni, Cimislia, Drochia, Floresti,
Hincesti, Leova, Riscani, Singerei, Soldanesti, Soroca, Telenesti,
Comrat, Vulcanesti and the Operative Service Department of the
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constitute a progressive evolution of rights of detainees in relation to
their behaviour. The enforcement depends on the punishment and the
behaviour of the detainees, the danger they represent, based on an
evaluation of the personality and behaviour, as well as on their
individual plan of serving the sentence.
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