Times of Malta
Wednesday, 13th January 2010 - 10:31CET
http://www.timesofmalta.com.mt/articles/view/20100113/local/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 governemnt would stick to its promise of giving prisoners on a drug rehabilitation programme an allowance of €23.30 per week.
The minister said the governemnt 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.
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