Minister suspends prison director’s decision to let inmates out unescorted

Home Affairs Minister Carm Mifsud Bonnici has ordered the immediate suspension of an ad hoc policy by acting prison director Abraham Zammit, to allow sentenced inmates out into the community without an escort.

11 September 2010, 12:00am
by Karl Stagno-Navarra

The suspension was ordered in the wake of the news revealed last Sunday by MaltaToday, about how police officers were shocked to find convicted criminals out in neighbourhoods, and without any escort

MaltaToday is informed that Mifsud Bonnici was angered at the way the matter was handled by the acting prison director, and ordered that the ‘pilot project’ for community work by inmates be suspended and be regulated according to established prison directive.

Read more of this story in MaltaToday on Sunday.