Visiting your loved one
who is sentenced
at the Corradino Correctional Facility
Paola

For loved ones on remand click here

Maltese version

NOTE: These norms do not apply to the Juvenile Section.
For the norms concerning this section click here.

The permit you are given at Court to visit your loved one at the prisons (click here to see how to obtain it) gives you the advantage of receiving telephone calls from him/her. Telephone calls can only be made after your first visit to the prisons. Do not forget: No visit can be made if you do not produce your personal ID card/passport/driving licence. ALWAYS GO FOR VISiTS AT LEAST 15 MINUTES BEFORE THE ESTABLISHED TIME.

Since your loved one is sentenced than s/he can:

• Meet you face to face around a table (called a "contact visit") once a week for 45 minutes between 9.00 am and 11.00 am, and between 2.00 pm and 3.30 pm. This may be done every day except on Sunday afternoons and feast days. Your loved one must book this visit beforehand, otherwise no visit may be held.
• Receive an unlimited number of letters from you, but s/he can send just one letter a week.
• Receive from you newspapers, books, clothes and/or money every day during visiting time (both in the morning and the evening). You may deposit not more than Lm20 at a time.
• Receive from you food every Saturday or Sunday (during visiting time), and only if your loved one had booked for it beforehand, otherwise no food may be left.

Your loved one can call you by telephone 4 times a day at any time of the day, but not before 8.00 am or after 8.00 pm, and nor between 12.30 pm and 3.00 pm.

You may take the personal belongings of your loved one everyday during visiting hours. This is also done at the "Debituri" (Debtors') complex (No.3 on map).

For persons held in any division except in Divisions V, VI and Female contact and non-contact visits are held at the complex on the left-hand side of the Main Gate entrance of the facility in Valletta Road. This complex is called the "Debituri".

For persons held in Divisions V, VI and Female contact and non-contact visits are held at the complex on the right-hand side of the Paola Police Station in Valletta Road (No.2 on map).

 

WHEN YOU VISIT THE PRISONS:

• Expect to have a body search before each visit. For these searches you CANNOT be stripped naked or ordered to expose private parts of your body. If such a thing happens contact us immediately.
• Expect that everything you want to take to the prisons will be searched. Sometimes sniffer dogs may be used.
• NEVER argue with prison officers. Their word is final.
• NEVER use rude, abusive or foul language.
• ALWAYS respect all prison officers.
• ALWAYS obey their orders (even if you do not understand them).
• ALWAYS go for visits dressed decently.