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We have too many prisoners: 154 prisoners per 100,000 of the population. The European average is 117. In Norway it’s 63 prisoners per 100,000. We are inching closer to the countries with the largest prison populations: Russia, Azerbaijan, Turkey… all countries with rubbish democratic credentials.…
Source — Time of Malta
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Speaking in a press conference earlier today, Abela said that he also backed the magisterial inquiry into the incident – and would wait for its conclusion before taking a position on the fatal incident.
A magisterial inquiry was opened soon after the inmate’s suicide attempt on 16th June. She had l…
Source — Lovinmalta
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Malta: Faculty for Social Wellbeing dean calls for end to solitary confinement in Malta’s prison
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The Office of the Dean of the Faculty for Social Wellbeing at the University of Malta has issued a position paper calling for the end to solitary confinement in the country.
“The practice of Solitary Confinement has been shown, through multiple empirical research publications, to be detrimental to…
Source — Maltatoday
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A prisoner who initiated judicial proceedings over what he describes as systematic terror inside the Corradino Correctional Facility, now claims to have been placed in solitary confinement in a fresh court application.
Brian Vella, 41, said in a court application filed on Monday that he has been ba…
Source — Malta today
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The Dean questioned the mechanisms that judges can utilise when handing down sentences to those convicted. “We need to ask: ‘Why are there more people in jail?’ Is it because we are being more efficient in the way we are investigating, or are there other difficulties, such as judges not having othe…
Source — Independent
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Corradino Correctional Facility staff have begun working in week-long shifts as increasingly tight anti-coronavirus measures are adopted to avoid an outbreak of the disease in the prison.
Over 60 correctional officers moved in at the facility this morning, residing in specially-constructed dormitor…
Source — Malta Today
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The government should consider setting up temporary prisons to ease overcrowding at Corradino prison and the related risk of the spread of COVID-19 Coronavirus, the shadow minister for home affairs said on Thursday.
Beppe Fenech Adami said the prison authorities should segregate elderly prisoners a…
Source — Times Malta
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Over the past weeks we’ve seen major changes done to Corradino Correctional Facility with regards to visitation rights and conjugal visits, but how much do we really know about the basic functions of a prison? Jeremy Micallef speaks with Senior Lecturer in the Department of Criminology Dr Sandra Sc…
Source — The Malta Independent
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