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THE Rise Foundation will be opening a halfway house for fe- male inmates serving the final months of their prison sentence. The announcement on the first hallway house of its kind in Mal- ta was announced during the signing of an extension of a so- cial agreement between the So- cial Policy Ministry and the Rise Foundation. The two parties also agreed to continue current halfway house services for male inmates. Addressing the signing, Min- ister Michael Falzon said the services will cost a €1 million spread over three years. "We are seeking to offer these services 24 hours a day. We are offering residential and even day community-based care to help inmates on a physical, spiritual, socio-legal, and psychological level," he said. For his part, Rise Chairperson Charles Mifsud said that this program is offered to persons on parole who are following a resi- dential programme. "In the last months of their sentence, prisoners who show a positive change in their behav- iour are given the chance to inte- grate into the community, work and not be a burden on society but also contribute," he said. 16 maltatoday | WEDNESDAY • 20 MARCH 2024 NEWS ACROSS 1) Campus military org. 5) City known for romance 10) Blood vessel obstruction 14) Geometry calculation 15) Decrease in intensity 16) Puerto ___ 17) Dispatched 18) Moscow monetary unit 19) Line on a list 20) Three things a chef might bake 23) West Point student 24) Ecstasy opposite 25) Ants, collectively 28) Fill a belly 30) Egg, to a biologist 31) Ruin 33) Gabor of old Hollywood 36) Three things a chef might roast 40) Snowy place that pro- vides quite a view 41) Legendary actress So- phia 42) Pond organism 43) Basketball highlight 44) Tuition collector 46) Its business is beauty 49) Favoured by God (Var.) 51) Three things a chef might fry 57) Russo of "Outbreak" 58) Fertilizer derived from sea birds 59) Wield the sceptre 60) Sermon sign-off 61) Intense hatred 62) One of the Great Lakes 63) Attention-getter, in a theatre 64) Have a feeling about 65) Designates, as a knight DOWN 1) Sculptor's tool 2) Twistable cookie 3) Pitched shelter 4) Ancient burial place 5) Travesty or spoof 6) Mistreatment 7) Morocco's capital 8) "___ do you good!" 9) "So it would ___ " 10) Wince 11) Collectible art print, briefly 12) Crossing medium 13) Famous rock opera 21) It may be picked up at the beach 22) Solemn promises 25) Soda selection 26) Shape of Obama's office 27) Oatmeal glob 28) Hit like a ton of bricks 29) Section of a play 31) Boxer's comeback? 32) Bill often passed 33) Sinuous coral reef dwell- ers 34) Chevy car of yore 35) Way off yonder 37) Hollow twanging sound 38) Longest division of geo- logic time 39) Traded 43) Learned teacher 44) Tum into 45) Get mileage out of 46) Type of heap or metal 47) Throaty cries for attention 48) Airport inconveniences 49) Egghead 50) "Peanuts" character 52) Psychiatric components 53) Like all newborns 54) Wise Hindu teacher 55) Silver-tongued 56) Witnesses F Solution to last week's crossword The answers to today's crossword will be published in next week's Midweek edition Weather Fine with high clouds becoming rather cloudy by evening Visibility Good Wind West Southwest force 3 to 4 locally force 4 to 5 becoming force 4 to 5 locally force 5 to 6. TOMORROW Crossword WEATHER WINDY 18 0 / 10 0 TODAY WINDY 17 / 11 0 FEELS LIKE 18 0 FEELS LIKE 18 0 Rise Foundation to open halfway house for female inmates KARL AZZOPARDI kazzopardi@mediatoday.com.mt