Thursday, 3rd July 2008 - 13:01CET
Muscat tours prisons, calls for more resources
Labour leader Joseph Muscat this morning visited the prisons at Corradino and called for more resources for prisoner rehabilitation programmes.
He was taken on an extensive tour of the facility, meeting inmates and staff.
In comments to the press afterwards, Dr Muscat said it was important that prisoner rehabilitation programmes were well resourced so that the prisoners could become citizens who would contribute to society and for the number of repeat offenders to fall.
He also called for better conditions of work for the staff, saying they were working very long hours which would be unacceptable by European standards had this not been a disciplined force.
Dr Muscat said there had been an improvement in the infrastructure of the prison although more remained to be done.
Asked about parole, Dr Muscat said the MLP was awaiting the government's proposals and would then discuss the issue.
Asked to comment about the reported police beatings of a migrant at he weekend, he said that he could not condone gratuitous violence, regardless of who the person was. He understood that the police at times needed to use an element of force but there was no explanation for any violence after a person was handcuffed. Dr Muscat said he would await the outcome of an investigation.
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Most politicians in the world are selfish people who's in the game for themselves and their greed for power. Malta is no exception. However JM's acts are ultra offensive, since he treats people like idiots thinking that we drool at his sight and he considers himself to be God's gift to the simple and unrefined people of Malta. JM has been living in his glass house for far too long.
Fortunately local people are more intelligen that that.
Dr. Muscat, where is the Beef? We are all waiting to hear what you have to say.
YOU ARE AN IDIOT!!!!
PN supporters as usual try to justify their PM and character assassinate the opposition.
Well guess Malta is fed up with neverending bills, taxes, corruption, inefficiencies and bad governance. And most of all were fed up of 'Liars' and those who protect them
If, as you say, by Dr Muscat's words you feel treated like an idiot, it could just be that Dr Muscat is right on all counts and that it's you who has found yourself. The best cure I can suggest to come back amongst us normal beings is to remove those blue blinkers and start thinking with your head. Otherwise you'll continue to think of yourself as an idiot.
Lately all they're doin is to wait for the government to set the picture on every issue, then if they don't agree, they slam him, if they do, they try to fine-tune it making us believe the idea is theirs......
Same old labour........different days..(I Camilleri, sliema).....
JM, read our lips, WE ARE NOT IDIOTS
As someone who is open minded about who to vote for in the next election, I must admit that I am not overly impressed with the "lets see what the PN say first" approach that Muscat seems to be adopting.
Yes, I know it is not always the case, but it it there more often than not.
Personally I would like to see firm policies.
MLP should not act like an opposition looking to trip up the other party, stop being reactionary and commit to firm decisions. Then you will get votes. If you are going to be pointing out the mistakes without offering solutions..... well, look what happened at the last election.
Hindsight is 20/20, anybody can do that. You've got four and a half years, give me a choice.