She speaks quickly and quietly, as if afraid to bother. Her brown hair shimmers in red. Her eyes are circled with darkness. If she behaves she will be out by the end of 1998, after serving three-quarters of her nine years sentence. Before 1990 there were no open institutions, part-time release or paroles in Hungary and to date there is no probation system.
Most women have to stay for one to three years for theft or fraud.
According to the rules a minor should be transferred there, if she has more than half of her sentence left when she turns 21. At night she reads books on etiquette and she avoids the other women. One reason is that at least half of the women are gypsies, and she has promised herself never to speak with a gypsy again. That is because her ex-boyfriend is a gypsy, and, according to her, is the reason to her being here. She often mentions her mother.