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Nonetheless, there is a lot more to investigate, within Malta’s punitive system, than the high rate of prison suicide alone. These cases, after all, have to be added to a long litany of disturbing stories of prison life: illustrated also by the egregious lack of accountability from that facility’s leadership ....
Only five magisterial inquiries on 12 prison deaths since 2018 concluded Majority of magisterial inquiries into prison deaths remain open • From the five concluded inquiries, four deaths were attributed to natural causes and one was a suicide 12 July 2021, 7:00am by Kurt Sansone Only five magisterial inquiries from the 12 initiated since 2018 following the death of prison inmates have been concluded. Inquiry conclusions seen by MaltaToday show that out of these five deaths, one was a suicide and the other four were attributed to natural causes by pathologists. Four of the five concluded inquiries concern the deaths that happened at the Corradino Correctional Facility last year. The other concerns a death that happened in 2018. ....
Prisoners to be electronically tagged to stem rising number of inmates Electronic tagging for minor crime convictions will ease prison population which now stands at over 860 inmates 19 April 2021, 7:04am by Kurt Sansone Electronic tagging of people sentenced to jail terms of not more than one year for minor crimes is being considered by government, MaltaToday has learnt. Legislation is being drafted that will allow magistrates to decide whether a person handed down an effective jail term should serve time outside prison. The law could be presented to parliament as early as next month. The system is being viewed as a means to help rehabilitation but it is also expected to ease some of the pressure from the prison facility, which has a problem of overpopulation. ....
Imprisonment rates continue to fall, find the latest Council of Europe penal statistics, although the report says this is due to the inability to prosecute cyber-enabled criminal offences rather than a shift away from incarceration as a form of punishment. Drug offences remain the reason for most convictions leading to imprisonment, making up 17.7% of the total prison population. The CoE press release also highlights that overcrowding remains a serious problems in a number of member states. ....