L-ARKA (The Ark) is the name of the official quarterly newsletter issued by the administrative officials of Mid-Dlam ghad-Dawl. The publication is sent free of charge, and distributed to all prisoners and many of their families.

Mid-Dlam ghad-Dawl's newsletter originally began in December 1996, and was named simply Mid-Dlam ghad-Dawl. This was discontinued in February 1998 due to the fact that Mid-Dlam ghad-Dawl had started to have a regular write-up column in the widely read newspaper It-Torca. In 2000, however, while the column in the newspaper was not dropped, the publication was resumed under the new title, L-ARKA, and is now issued regularly.

Some 450 copies are printed quarterly, of which around 400 go to the prisoners themselves.

Since the newsletter is distributed locally it is written exclusively in Maltese. However, as from February 2004, a version of the newsletter in English began to be distributed to foreign prisoners held in Malta entitled:

The
ARK

From February 2008, the publication began to be published bi-lingually (Maltese and English)