The end of his conviction in 1956 did not mean Purcărea’s release. Considered to be resistent to the reeducation, Nicolae Purcărea received forced address in Lăţeşti, in Bărăgan (Southern Romania), where he met Gica Fuică, his future wife. They could not enjoy their new status as a family because only a year after their marriage, they were both arrested again in a wave of repression generated by the Hungarian Revolution and the withdrawal of the Red Army from Romania.

For Nicolae Purcărea his refusal to become an informant for the Securitate also played a key role in his arrest. His conviction from 1942 was reactivated and he was imprisoned from September 1958 to August 1964 in Periprava, Galaţi and Aiud, where he went through a non-violent type of re-education, an ideological one.

Aspects of the meetings of members of the subversive group – the Securitate used pictures from the weddings and baptisms of a group of friends, former inmates in Târgu Ocna (some of them having passed through Pitești) as proof of continuing anti-communist activity after release. A pram received as a present was taken to be 'legionaire aid'. In 1959 they were sentenced to 5 years in prison to hard labor for life.