President Marie-Louise Coleiro Preca has called for the setting up of a Family Intervention Unit at at the prisons to act as a bridge between prisoners and their families, including children'. Speaking at a public lecture of engaging offenders with their children and families, organised by Fondazzjoni mid-Dlam għad-Dawl, the President spoke about the difficulties offenders encounter when they re-enter society. Such difficulties are made worse in Malta, a relatively small community where offenders are well known and therefore marginalised at the outset. As a result, many find it difficult to get a job, education and decent housing, all of which lead to poverty, and subsequently they find themselves returning to crime. All this leads to 75% of the prisoners being repeat offenders. "In the meantime, children and families of offenders continue to suffer unnecessarily, not only from the stigma associated with imprisonment of a family member, but even more through the consequences this has on the whole family", the President said. She said that a Family Intervention Unit would need to be manned by professionals from the social and psychology fields, family relations officers and...
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