Prison System Policy
Prisons should be a place of rehabilitation and not punishment. Over the past years, there have been a number of deaths within Malta's prisons. The system can't continue as it is.
- Reorientate the prison system from punishment to rehabilitation.
- Adopt best-practice from the Norwegian Model.
- Adopt best-practice from the Norwegian Model.
- Ensure that prison conditions always comply with human rights and dignity regulations, as laid out by Council of Europe standards, and that administrative powers are not used in a discriminatory way.
- Ensure that prisons are as closely modelled to the outside world as possible to make reintegration and inclusion easier.
- Prioritise alternative sanctions (other than prison, such as community service) for certain non-violent crimes.
- Ensure the prison education system serves both short- and long-term offenders.
- Ban Solitary Confinement.
- Offer psychological treatment and/or psychotherapy for prisoners, especially for prisoners that suffer from ADHD in combination with substance abuse.
- Ensure that juveniles are not detained with adults.
- Ensure that prisoners undergoing strip searches are searched by same-sex prison officers.
- For certain inmates who adhere to strict religious or cultural obligations, all necessary precautions and measures must be adopted not to cross sensitive boundaries.
- Officers must anticipate these requests beforehand.
- Officers must anticipate these requests beforehand.
- For certain inmates who adhere to strict religious or cultural obligations, all necessary precautions and measures must be adopted not to cross sensitive boundaries.
- Provide cultural training for prison officers.
- All officers should undergo training to learn the techniques needed to work with incarcerated multi-ethnic communities.