The shadow minister for home affairs, Beppe Fenech Adami, said today that the record of five deaths of people in custody in just over three months was the result of mismanagement and bad choices in who runs the prisons. Speaking a day after a 52-year-old prisoner passed away at Corradino, Dr Fenech Adami told a press conference that up to a short while ago the prisons were run by former Assistant Police Commissioner Ray Zammit, a man who was trapped in a web of controversies. The situation at the prisons, he said, had deteriorated to unprecedented levels. For example, he said, the level of hygiene in the cells was poor. A number of cells meant for one person were holding two. Some inmates were having to resort to washing their clothes in buckets and drinking water which was unfit for consumption. The quality of food had also deteriorated. All this was compounded by a drug proble gripping the prison. Dr Fenech Adami asked why Home Affairs Minister Carmelo Abela was 'hiding' behind magisterial inquiries whose results were often not published. Why had an independent inquiry into the situation at the prisons not been ordered?
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