A new learning hub has opened at Corradino Correctional Facility, offering inmates more courses to support their rehabilitation.

This is the second such hub to open within prison. The new facility is fully equipped with modern classrooms, a library and an art room.

Inmates will be able to attend lessons and training workshops in English, Mathematics, Maltese, digital skills, hairdressing, and sewing, among others. There will be a greater emphasis on courses that increase inmates’ employability and integration such as CV writing and personal development workshops.

Currently 10 educators are giving lessons at the facility alongside a number of other teachers from various institutions such as MCAST, Lifelong Learning Directorate and ITS.

Speaking at the inauguration of the learning hub, Home Affairs Minister Byron Camilleri said the government is committed to continuing the implementation of a complete transformation of the facility.

He pointed out the learning hub played a central role within inmates’ rehabilitation journey.

“We have transformed prison and are still doing so. From a place without discipline, order, or any form of rehabilitation, today we have an organised facility where rehabilitation is truly its main purpose. The learning hub is a major part of this rehabilitation, because we want every person serving a sentence to be able, during that sentence, to learn and train, so that when they return to society, they are better individuals,” Camilleri said.

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