PRISON LIFE IN RUMANIA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00046R000200350018-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 4, 2009
• Sequence Number: 18
• Publication Date: November 27, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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COUNTRY Rumania
SUBJECT' Prison. Life in Rumania
DATE DISTR. 27 I.T. 1958
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1. The following is a list of jails in Rumania
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a. Aiud 1N 46-19, E 23-4.f/:
the major political prisons in umann a was in. the city o u.
location was unknown
one of
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b. Jilava ,NN 44-19, E 26-4/: this city had
a major political prison and possibly a criminal prison which was noted for
its cold, damp dungeons. The exact location was unknown
c. Fagaras; the old fortress in the center of Fagaras was used as a prison for
political prisoners and possibly for criminals as well.
d. Constanta:. the Siguranta.
Conditions in, Rumanian Jails
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? iguranta in ons an a pitch b ac ce w e
a an oor. There were no windows an them vas not even a wooden bunk,
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the jail never fed the prisoners.
he political prisoners must have been influential
men who had bribed the guards and helped the other prisoners because they knew that
The floor was covered with sand and was foul smelling. ~ taken
to the toilet twice a day but that was not sufficient. The cell was never cleaned.
There were large rats in the cell and he became infested with li
One of the packages from the political prisoners fortunately included DDT powder
which helped for a while.
the 'cold room" which consisted of a
well-ventilated cell and an uncoverea cemen floor. However like the regular
eell,it had no bunk and wince the jail never issued blankets
most of the cells in the jail were
very crowded. the cells to be five b. .five meters; they contained
10 eo le. Excs t for a police a
nobody ever joined him in the dark cell.
military prisoners who were held in the Chemical Commissariat Jail;
there were "dark rooms". "cold rooms". and ordinary cells. All the calls a. a
wooden bunk and nave more than two prisoners in one cell.
[the prisoners were very humanely treated.
~i. there were two types of arrest: severe'. treatment (regim sever)
and normal reatment (regim simplu). The severe treatment consisted of alternating
the bread and water diet with the normal military food daily. The normal treatment
prisoner received ordinary military food daily. What constituted the difference
hMt'WAAn t' types of prisoners was unknown
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