Romania's high-security prison in Giurgiu at the Danube will launch a program for offering the inmates professional qualification by making furniture.

Florentin Muscalu, head of the prison, told Ruseinfo.net that a modern carpenter mini-factory will spread on 1,485 square meters and will produce custom-made furniture.

Financed by the EC's PHARE program, the two-storey factory is expected to start working in the beginning of 2007.

Most of the equipment has already been supplied to the factory, and six experts are teaching the inmates carpenter skills. The first pieces of furniture should be ready by March with 30% of the income going into inmates' bank accounts and the rest towards improving the living conditions of the prison.

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