A 27-year-old prisoner at Corradino Correctional Facility is in critical condition after having been found unconscious at the facility early yesterday morning.

Marlon Camilleri was taken to prison only last Saturday as he awaits trial on charges of aggravated theft, informed sources said.

The Director of Prisons in a statement said the man was found unconscious in a sitting position on his cell bed by the officers on duty.

The officers took immediate action to try to revive him. The duty nurse was called followed by a doctor from the Paola Health Centre. He was then taken to Mater Dei Hospital’s Emergency Department where he was placed under intensive care.

A magisterial inquiry and police investigations are under way.

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