Moldova
Prison Service (in progress)
Analysis provided by: Barbara Nazareth Andrade de Oliveira, Legal Expert.
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Moldova, as a new democracy, faced the need to develop a new its systems and legislation. The prison service inMoldovahas experienced important changes in the past 8 years. These changes mainly relate to the transfer of responsibility and development of new legislation.
The responsibility of the prison system inMoldovawas formally transferred from the Minister of Interior to the Minister of Justice in 1996. Currently, the Department of Penitentiary Institutions is the departmentunder
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