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10 at night, vaginal inspections, and isolation in freezing rooms. Letters, packages and visits were forbidden. The warden from 1944 to 1953, a veteran communist, stands out as a positive character in memoirs: she hated informants, procured medicines for the prisoners, and tolerated the celebration of
Christmas. At other times, the warden, Elena Tudor, was much harsher, earning the nickname
415:) or the "black dungeon" — a dark and cold room without bed and mattress, intended to terrorize women. If a detainee was a recidivist, did not comply with prison regulations, or did not work enough, she could be sent there for 10 days, even and sometimes more; many were punished this way, especially in the very cold winter of 1954–1955.
392:. For instance, after one inmate was left alone to give birth at night, Tudor came in, saw her all covered in blood, and said: "There, whelping like a reactionary bitch". In the end, Tudor would be reported as being "close to the detainees" and, following an investigation, was fired; after working for some years at the Salubrity Services in
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fighter, interned along with her mother. There were seventeen large rooms with a capacity of 527 inmates, with 21 to 34 per room. One ten-minute shower was allowed weekly. Physical beatings were rare, but other punishments frequent: food deprivation, being forced to stand from 5 in the morning until
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The prison housed minors until 1924, when it became a women's prison. That year, three workshops were opened, for weaving, carpet-making and clothes-making. The women were common criminals as well as political prisoners placed in a special section: spies,
294:. After 1949, political prisoners were allowed into the workshops, producing traditional crafts, bridal dresses and Persian rugs, then using the money to buy food from a nearby farm. However, work eventually came to exceed twelve hours a day.
282:; the inmates helped with the repairs. From 1944 to 1952, the prisoners were both ordinary and political; only political from 1952 to 1956; and, in theory, only ordinary afterwards. In 1954, there were 397 political prisoners at Mislea.
242:. The compound has a quadrangular shape, being fortified with high walls, supported on strong buttresses; it includes the defense tower, the bell tower at the entrance, and the cells, built on vaulted cellars.
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Many inmates were liberated after the 1964 general amnesty, and the prison was closed in the 1970s. The facilities have been renovated and now house a Care and
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Non-working detainees were served small portions of barely edible food. The prisoners were as young as school age, and one was brought there shortly after being born, the posthumous daughter of an
744:"Narrating Communist Repression in and Outside the Courtroom: The Case of Former Prison Commander Alexandru Vișinescu and its Resonance with (Societally) Available 'Narrative Worlds'"
396:(or being imprisoned, according to other sources), she returned to Mislea, where she lived alone until the end of her life. From 1954 to 1956, the political officer at Mislea was
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Memorial of the
Victims of Communism and of the Resistance
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