or training and rehabilitation are being introduced. Lai Sun
correctional institution, for some 200 young offenders under
the age of 21, will be opened later this
this year, and Shek Pik maximum security prison will be opened early next year.
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crime.
integrate
turn again to
extension of existing
Other important developments will include the
introduction of the parole and pre-release employment schemes,
which will help offenders on their release to themselves properly into society and not to
These schemes represent an correctional programmes, and will, we a reduction in our penal population. of improved vocational training for introduced next year.
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hope, eventually lead to
In addition, a programme
young offenders will be
Although some of the more vociferous critics of Hong
Kong would have us believe otherwise, it is not the case that Hong Kong compares badly with other parts of the world in the level of corruption. What is true is that Hong Kong makes a very determined effort to eradicate corruption, and has already
achieved considerable success.
Gone is the syndicated
corruption which caused So much distress in the sixties and
early seventies; and new standards of public conduct have
emerged. There has also been a marked change in public
attitudes: the many reports received from ordinary citizens
indicate that they are not prepared to tolerate corruption.
But the unrelenting effort to eradicate this social evil will
continue. In sustaining its pressures on the corrupt, the ICAC
has the full confidence and backing of the Government.
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