Understanding of the Food Norms in Penitentiaries from Romania

National Administration of Penitentiaries in Romania aims to improve the conditions of detention of
detainees and improve the overall level of safety, in the spirit of national and international advanced
standards in the field. These indicators give us an objective image in the area of deprivation of
freedom, but also a subjective side felt the target group of the study, the inmates. The present chapter
was conducted to this end, at the request of NAP. In order to understand developments that occurred
in the NAP system in the past 3-4 decades, the study begins by briefly describing the detention
conditions and existing feeding in European prisons before the late l960. The study was conducted
with the following research methods: bibliographic documentation on the history and actuality to feed
the residents of prisons various countries, focusing on the situation in Romania and other countries;
studying regulations on feeding management persons serving sentences of imprisonment in Romania;
realization of interviews with residents in prison on detention conditions and to feed the prison;
carrying out discussions with specialists from prison on the main difficulties encountered in their
specific activity.