 Pitești Prison

Pitești Prison () was a penal facility in Pitești, Romania, best remembered for the reeducation experiment (also known as "Experimentul Pitești" – the "Pitești Experiment" or "Fenomenul Pitești" – the "Pitești Phenomenon") which was carried out between December 1949 and September 1951, during Communist party rule.The experiment, which was implemented by a group of prisoners under the guidance of the prison administration, was designed as an attempt to violently "reeducate" the mostly young political prisoners, who were primarily supporters of the fascist Iron Guard, as well as Zionist members of the Romanian Jewish community.