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Malta: Faculty for Social Wellbeing dean calls for end to solitary confinement in Malta’s prison
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Malta: Faculty for Social Wellbeing dean calls for end to solitary confinement in Malta’s prison
A position paper issued by the Office of the Dean
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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…
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Crises
Europe
Material conditions
Malta: “unbearable heat” in prison cells is “inhumane”
Prisoners are suffering “inhumane treatment” due to the “unbearable heat” that builds up
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Europe
Material conditions
Overcrowding
Malta: when it comes to prison, the statistics are very telling
Statistics are very telling. In Malta the rate of recidivism (people who commit
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Europe
Material conditions
Facilities
Malta: prison facility is on a “very good” track forward
Compared to the Corradino Correctional Facility of 15 years ago, Prisoner Welfare
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Europe
Social ties
Religion
Work
Malta: prison bakery dishes out the Christmas goodies
Incarcerated people and correctional facility officers have been baking several Christmas
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Europe
Mental health
Drugs
Material conditions
Suicide
Overcrowding
Rehabilitation
Malta: ‘I would abolish solitary confinement if I could’
Malta’s prison boss does not agree with solitary confinement and would abolish it altogether
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Europe
Discipline
Malta: clash of cultures at Corradino prison, former legal officer says
Warders focus on punishment while professionals want rehabilitation, says
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Women
Europe
Facilities
Rehabilitation
Malta: new facility to prepare women approaching the end of their prison term
A house is to be set up in Marsaxlokk to prepare incarcerated women
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Women
Europe
Foreign prisoners
Justice
Health
Drugs
Material conditions
Suicide
Violence
Malta: ‘a factory of evil’, damning report on Alex Dalli’s prison tenure
Alex Dalli’s prison degraded incarcerated people and subjected them
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Europe
Material conditions
Facilities
Overcrowding
Rehabilitation
Malta: the Corradino correctional facility is “diabolical” and the prison system should be completely revised
Dean of the Faculty of social wellbeing
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Coronavirus
Europe
Health
Overcrowding
Malta: PN suggests temporary prisons to ease overcrowding and virus risk at Corradino
The government should consider setting up temporary prisons
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Europe
Health
Malta: imprisoned person tests positive for tuberculosis, sending CCF on high alert
Corradino prison is on high alert for a potential outbreak
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Prisoners serving life have a ‘right to hope’ and should be allowed the possibility to apply for parole after 25 years of jail, the constitutional court has said.
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Europe
Health
Mental health
Drugs
Malta: Prime minister has full faith In prison director after inmate’s death
Prime Minister Robert Abela insists he has full faith in Prison Director
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Europe
Long-term prisoners
Justice
Material conditions
Torture
Violence
Malta: inmate claims solitary confinement retribution after speaking out on ‘campaign of terror’ in prison
A prisoner who spoke out on breach
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Coronavirus
Europe
Health
Work
Malta: Corradino prison staff start week-long shifts to reduce Covid-19 risks
Corradino Correctional Facility staff have begun working in week-long
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Europe
Justice
Drugs
Malta: government proposes rehab instead of prison term for persons already jailed over drugs
The Ministry for Justice has launched a public
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The number of prisoners in Switzerland rose 50% from 1988 to 2017.
Much of this is due to population growth. Switzerland’s population grew 28% over the same period. However, population growth doesn’t account for all of the increase in prison numbers. In 1988, there were 70 prisoners per 100,000. By…
Coronavirus
Analysis
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Overcrowding
Prisons make fertile breeding grounds for viruses, yet administrations have revealed little about Covid-19 cases, deaths and vaccinations in Europe’s prisons. Data from 32 countries show the pandemic’s impact on prisons