Moldova: Prison Conditions · Global Voices
Veronica Khokhlova

Last year, Father Bill Haymaker of Moldova Prisons documented the heartbreak and humiliation of prisoners’ lives: 20 boys living in a cell designed for 12; 18 girls packed into a similar cell; two women, each mother of a 4-month-old, sharing a room “so small I could not extend my arms completely” – here and here; rats that are “larger than cats, and almost the size of small dogs.”