Sample of 71.056 files of political prisoners
| Social background | |
| middling peasant | 25.70% |
| poor peasant | 22.8 |
| petty bourgeois | 18.4 |
| labourer | 16.2 |
| kulak | 9.45 |
| unspecified | 3.96 |
| other | 2.04 |
| landowner | 0.43 |
| upper middle class | 0.21 |
| ploughman | 0.13 |
| Education | |
| primary | 33.60% |
| lyceum | 19.4 |
| gymnasium | 17.8 |
| higher | 17.1 |
| other | 5.82 |
| illiterate | 3.11 |
| unspecified | 2.51 |
| Professions | |
| agricultural worker | 28.80% |
| labourer | 13.5 |
| functionary | 9.35 |
| artisan | 5.64 |
| priest | 2.4 |
| engineer | 1.96 |
| student | 1.94 |
| pupil | 1.9 |
| teacher | 1.81 |
| lawyer | 1.37 |
| physician | 1.02 |
| tradesman | 0.76 |
| artist | 0.31 |
| Juridical specification | |
| unspecified | 32.60% |
| machination against the social order | 30 |
| other | 9.1 |
| public incitement | 5 |
| fraudulent crossing of the frontier | 4.37 |
| activity against the working class | 2.05 |
| agitation | 2 |
| encouragement to criminal acts | 1.68 |
| failure to make a denouncement | 1.46 |
| high treason | 0.89 |
| crime of machination against the social order | 0.87 |
| treason | 0.65 |
| sabotage | 0.52 |
| intensive activity against the working class | 0.48 |
| possession of firearms | 0.47 |
| banned publications | 0.41 |
| espionage | 0.25 |
| plotting | 0.18 |
| mutiny against the social order | 0.16 |
| undermining the national economy | 0.12 |
| insulting the authorities | 0.07 |
| desertion | 0.06 |
| instigation against socialist unity | 0.04 |
| instigation against a foreign state | 0.03 |
| complicity in undermining the national economy | 0.02 |
| insulting a superior | 0.01 |
| Deaths in prison | 3.23% |
| Type of sentence | |
| unspecified | 39.40% |
| corrective imprisonment | 37.1 |
| hard labour | 9.09 |
| harsh imprisonment | 6.72 |
| administrative sentence | 3 |
| other | 0.95 |
| hard labour for life | 0.73 |
| death sentence | 0.42 |
| privation of freedom | 0.25 |
| fine or detention | 0.03 |
| Prisons | |
| Jilava | 36.10% |
| Gherla | 20.3 |
| Aiud | 16.2 |
| Poarta Alba | 12.7 |
| Vacaresti | 9.59 |
| Periprava | 8.23 |
| Pitesti | 7.36 |
| Craiova | 6.94 |
| Salcia | 6.56 |
| Oradea | 5.34 |
| Cluj | 5.31 |
| Iasi | 3.91 |
| Fagaras | 3.86 |
| Constanta | 3.7 |
| Midia | 3.68 |
| Capu Midia | 3.46 |
| Baia Sprie | 3.12 |
| Borzesti | 2.91 |
| Botosani | 2.89 |
| Satu Mare | 1.95 |
| Peninsula | 1.75 |
| Margineni | 1.65 |
| Bacau | 1.59 |
| Rahova | 1.58 |
| Mislea | 1.4 |
| Targu Ocna | 1.18 |
| Târgsor | 1.17 |
| Miercurea Ciuc | 1.13 |
| Castelu | 0.76 |
| Castelu | 0.76 |
| Dumbraveni | 0.42 |
| Sighet | 0.42 |
| 9 Culme | 0.27 |
