PROJECTS: Minors from Lipcani Penitentiary release their own newspaper (MOLDOVA)

SOURCE: "Centrul Media" <centrulmedia@yahoo.com>

MINORS FROM LIPCANI PENITENTIARY RELEASE OWN NEWSPAPER

Chisinau-25.10.2005/12:45:45/(BASA-general) The first issue of the
newspaper AerZona of minor detainees from the penitentiary based in the city
of Lipcani, was published last weekend. This is the first newspaper
published by a detention institution in Moldova.

Contacted by BASA, Valeriu Carlasciuc, chief of the Lipcani prison, said
that the publication has an educational and information purpose. "The first
issue of the newspaper has eight pages in format A4, it contains interviews,
works and pictures of detainees, entertainment materials and articles about
activity of institution, which objectively covers the life and events
happening there. The editorial team comprises ten minor detainees who
appointed a chief-editor, a photographer and a model maker, while
representatives of penitentiary assist them in the process of editing of
newspaper," Carlasciuc noted.

He announced that a radio studio will start working in this penitentiary by
late 2005. Detainees and representatives of penitentiary administration will
work out the materials for radio and newspaper within a series of seminars
held by professional journalists from Moldova.

AerZona and the future radio station are part of a project financed by
UNICEF and implemented by the Youth Media Centre and Institute for Penal
Reforms.

The only detention institution for minors in Moldova, the Lipcani-based
penitentiary , holds about 100 minors under 18.

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