On his Facebook, Nationalist MP Darren Carabott highlighted the pressing issue of prisoner welfare and the urgent need for improved prison infrastructure amidst the rising temperatures affecting everyone.
Carabott began his post by noting the severe toll the typical Maltese heat is taking and went on to empathize with prisoners who are confined to small, shared cells while enduring this intense heat.
He argued that subjecting individuals to such unbearable conditions will not facilitate their rehabilitation but rather drive them to insanity. Carabott emphasized the necessity of providing prisoners with a humane environment to ensure they emerge from incarceration in a better state than when they entered.
He concluded his post by affirming the Nationalist Party’s stance: along with comprehensive reform of prison management, there is a critical need for adequate infrastructure with proper conditions to offer inmates the opportunity for genuine change.
Carabott’s post came only hours after Social wellbeing faculty Dean Andrew Azzopardi revealed that inmates were suffering from “inhumane treatment” due to “unbearable heat” inside their cells, with temperatures inside cells sometimes being as high as 30°C
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