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OSCE Mission supports professional training for Moldovan detainees

CHISINAU 18 September 2008
(OSCE/Iulia Kirnitki)The Head of the Moldova Penitentiary Department, Vladimir Trofim (right), explains to the Head of the OSCE Mission to Moldova, Ambassador Philip Remler, about new classes for detainees at Pruncul Prison in Chisinau, 18 September 2008. (OSCE/Iulia Kirnitki) Photo details

CHISINAU, 18 September 2008 - Classes providing professional training for Moldovan detainees started today at the Pruncul prison in Chisinau with the support of the OSCE Mission to Moldova.

"We hope that these classes will contribute to the re-socialization of the detainees and help them to start a new life after release from prison," said Ambassador Philip Remler, head of the OSCE Mission.

The Mission provided the Moldovan Penitentiary Department with technical equipment to teach the professions of welder, plasterer and fitter in three annual training sessions for 45 detainees at the prison. Those who complete the training courses will receive certificates from the Education Ministry.

The training courses are part of the OSCE Mission's support for the Moldovan Penitentiary Department's penitentiary reform. The Mission has earlier supplied all prisons in Moldova with social and legal information literature.