This article engages with the European debate on the position of foreign national prisoners in the context of the European Council Framework Decision that facilitates a prisoner’s transfer between the EU Member States (FD 909/2008). The study aims at capturing the experiences of 133 Romanian prisoners held in Italian and Spanish prisons, together with their intentions to engage or not with this new opportunity. One of the main findings of this research is that the explicit aim of the FD (social rehabilitation) is likely to be challenged by the intention of the foreign prisoners to use this FD to decrease the time spent behind bars. The article also puts forward a number of policy and practice recommendations that would improve the position of foreign prisoners in European prisons.

This entry explores the sensitive matter of the considerable presence of foreign national prisoners detained within penal institutions around the world. After a brief analysis of what appears to be a growing trend, the author lists the main difficulties faced by foreign persons from their arrest until the time of their release. The concluding part underlines how only ad hoc supranational legal mechanisms can provide a valid means of protecting foreign national prisoners' rights while creating real opportunities for effective post‐sentence social reintegration with the aim of consequently reducing the presence of foreign national prisoners in prison facilities. This, however, can only be achieved where these measures are correctly implemented and based on the drafting of operating protocols jointly agreed by all countries involved.

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