Does the right to information extend to the right to know about the ailments of those particular individuals who are currently serving time at CCF? Don’t they have a right to privacy? Or is the right to satisfy one’s curiosity limitless?

Me too

Absolutely spot-on editorial in The Sunday Times which expresses the thoughts and feelings of all decent Maltese.

Now it appears that our disgraced ex chief justice will be appealing last week’s sentence in the hope of getting away with some loophole or cavil in the law. It seems that all his remaining friends (if any !) have rallied round and are calling him “miskin” when the “msieken” are those drug addicts and their families, victims of the convicted drug trafficker who bribed him.

Now can any enterprising investigative reporter ask the Minister of Justice or the Director of the Corradino Correctional Facility how many inmates are suffering from depression and other medical conditions but are still held at Corradino – and can he publish a list of Corradino inmates held at Mount Carmel Mental Hospital?

If and when this list is published, the public will be surprised and outraged at some of the names on it. All in the name of transparency and freedom of information.

“Asked to describe Mount Carmel’s forensic unit, sources who frequent the hospital said it was “completely different to prison” and provided a “more relaxed atmosphere”.

They said the unit was at the back of the hospital grounds, was surrounded by fields and had a view of Mdina.

The unit has an open space with trees and benches where family members visiting prisoners can spend their time with their loved ones. It also has a small games room with a billiard table.” http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20091128/local/arrigo-suffering-from-depression

[Daphne – Yes, it was.]

I was at St Dorothy’s and I don’t remember them dressed like that either….

Daphne, you appear to be attracting a lengthening list of loonies. Good stuff. Adds to the amusement and entertainment.