Prisoners on drug rehab programme to be given allowance

Prisoners undergoing drug rehabilitation programmes are to be given a financial allowance, Justice Minister Carm Mifsud Bonnici has confirmed. A formal announcement is to be made in the coming weeks.

In Parliament yesterday, Dr Mifsud Bonnici was asked if the government would stick to its promise of giving prisoners on a drug rehabilitation programme an allowance of €23.30 per week.

The minister said the government had been considering giving funds to those organisations holding rehabilitation programmes so that they could give an allowance to sentenced prisoners undergoing a residential drug rehabilitation programme.

Now that the necessary studies and talks had been completed, the implementation of this promise would be announced in the coming weeks.