AriceÃÂtii Rahtivani is a commune in Prahova County, Muntenia, Romania. It is composed of five villages: AriceÃÂtii Rahtivani, Buda, Nedelea, StoeneÃÂti, and TârgÃÂoru Nou.
The commune is situated in the Wallachian Plain, on the left bank of the Prahova River; the rivers Leaotul and ViiÃÂoara flow through TârgÃÂoru Nou village. AriceÃÂtii Rahtivani is located in the southwestern part of the county, west of the county seat, PloieÃÂti.
The commune is crossed by national road , which runs from PloieÃÂti to TârgoviÃÂte and on to GÃÂeÃÂti. In StoeneÃÂti village, two county roads branch off: DJ144, which leads north to FloreÃÂti, and DJ140, which leads southeast to TârgÃÂoru Vechi (where it intersects with DN1A), Brazi, and Puchenii Mari (where it ends in DN1).
The railway station in Buda village serves the CÃÂile Ferate Române Main Line 300, which connects Bucharest to BraÃÂov and continues to the Hungarian border near Oradea, while the stop in TârgÃÂoru Nou village serves the Transferoviar CÃÂlÃÂtori , which runs from to TârgoviÃÂte.
The TârgÃÂor Prison is located on the western side of TârgÃÂoru Nou. Built in 1857 for a monastery, the structure was taken over by the Romanian Army and turned into a military prison, which was also used for common law criminals when the nearby PloieÃÂti Penitentiary was overcrowded. From 1948 to 1952, after the Communist system was established in Romania, this was the only prison for children in the world (dubbed the "Prison of Angels"). Hundreds of recalcitrant minors (some as young as 12) were subjected to psychological experiments and beaten with the intention of being "re-educated" in the spirit of the "Communist new man" (see: Re-education in Communist Romania); the re-education of minors was personally coordinated by Alexandru Nicolschi, one of the main organizers of the PiteÃÂti Experiment. Nowadays, the penitenciary serves as a women's prison.