Inmates can roam around all day...
ALTHOUGH many prisons in Romania have cramped cells, inmates still enjoy a range of benefits and privileges.
‘Semi-open’ jails, where Grecu and Bagarea would serve most if not all of their prison terms, give inmates plenty of freedom.
Details are spelt out in the High Court judgment on their appeal against extradition. Detainees can buy food every week in the prison shops and may be granted the right to spend all day outside their detention rooms. They have to return to their rooms only for meals and evening roll call.
Despite this, 19 Romanian prisons were hit by protests against poor conditions and overcrowding last year.