Promoting a human rights compliant criminal justice system in the Republic of Moldova

The Programme ”Promoting a human rights compliant criminal justice system in the Republic of Moldova” is in line with the strategic priorities for cooperation as formulated in the Council of Europe Action Plan for the Republic of Moldova for 2017-2020, and is funded by the Norwegian government.

It is aimed to ensure a higher respect for human rights and the rule of law by assisting the national authorities in building up an efficiently functioning criminal justice system, in line with European human rights standards, and based on the principles of humanisation, resocialisation and restorative justice.

Main intervention areas will cover policy/legal framework, institutional and practical implementation levels, with the focus on:

Consolidation of criminal justice policy, legislation and judiciary practice in line with international standards with respect to the liberalization of criminal proceedings, including strengthening the application of non-custodial pre-trial preventive measures and sanctions, alternative sanctions in criminal cases, improvement of probation services and release on parole mechanisms
Better treatment and resocialisation of inmates by improving the regulatory and policy framework as well as prison staff capacities relevant to regime arrangements and management of prisons, implementation of treatment programmes and provision of health care services for inmates;
Support towards the development of the capacities of criminal justice stakeholders in the light of the implementation of the on-going reforms, including judiciary, prosecution service, as well as Ombudsperson’s institution and National Prevention Mechanism (NPM).

The Programme is expected to be implemented in 36 months (as of 1 March 2018).

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Back Presentation of Action Plans aimed at reorganising 3 prisons: nr. 7-Rusca for women, no. 10-Goian for young offenders and nr. 1-Taraclia for males

A Workshop on Action Plans aimed at reorganising the prisons with focus on dynamic security and reintegration of inmates of Prison nr. 7-Rusca (for women), Prison no. 10-Goian (for young offenders) and Prison nr. 1-Taraclia (for males) was conducted on 27 July 2020.

The workshop is a follow-up to the assessment mission conducted on 29 June – 2 July 2020, which resulted in the development of the Action Plans for each pilot prison and the National Administration of Penitentiaries of Moldova, laying out a set of strategies, along with instructions for their implementation. These Action Plans and the instructions for their implementation have been presented and discussed during the workshop and will be tested in three prisons, in close consultation with CoE consultants in the following months.

The workshop was attended by over thirty participants – the senior management of the National Administration of Penitentiaries and representatives of its concerned directorates (institutional management, detention, security and penitentiary regime), directors and deputy directors as well as managers of various sections and services (human resources, security and penitentiary regime, social reintegration, evidence of detainees, safeguarding and escort, legal service, etc.) from the concerned pilot prisons.

The activity was organised under the auspices of the Programme “Promoting a human rights compliant criminal justice system in the Republic of Moldova”, funded by the Government of Norway and implemented by the Council of Europe.

Republic of Moldova, Chisinau 27 July 2020