Paintings as well as curtains made by 20 inmates at the Kordin Correctional Facility will be for sale at the Social Policy Ministry in Valletta, during the Notte Bianca.

Some of the proceeds will go towards a special fund which participating inmates would then use once they are free. The rest will be deposited into a victims fund and to support the Rise Foundation, which works to rehabilitate inmates and integrate them in society, by providing them shelter.

This was announced during a visit which Home Affairs Minister Manuel Mallia and Social Policy Minister Michael Farrugia made at a new art studio in the Kordin Correctional Facility.

Dr Mallia lauded this initiative saying that his wish was to have a correctional facility which was more focused on rehabilitation. The opening of a music room for inmates and a games room for their children were among these initiatives, he said.

He reiterated that the government would show no mercy against drugs in prison.

The Home Affairs Minister announced that new sniffer dogs had arrived but would not be stationed at the prison, as they would become the "inmates' pets" as had happened before.