LAW AND ORDER
and confidence is shown in the readiness with which the public seek aid and advice from the Police on a variety of problems.
Prisons
There are five institutions under the control of the Commissioner of Prisons. These are Stanley, Victoria and Lai Chi Kok Prisons and Stanley and Tung Tau Wan Training Centres. All are administered from a Headquarters in the city of Victoria.
Stanley Prison
Stanley Prison is built on the separate cell block system and was designed to house 1,746 prisoners. It receives all convicted male prisoners with sentences of over one month. These prisoners are classified and subdivided into groups according to previous record and length of sentence. All prisoners sentenced to one year and over are employed in industrial work and receive trade training from qualified instructors. Short- term prisoners are employed outside the walls on reclamation projects, a prison vegetable garden and piggery, and in health and sanitation work. This prison received 5,174 prisoners during the year and had a daily average of 2,099 occupants.
Victoria Prison
Victoria Prison houses remand prisoners, civil prisoners, persons awaiting deportation, vagrants and convicted prisoners serving sentences of under one month. These groups are strictly segregated. In addition, all convicted prisoners are now kept at Victoria for the first two weeks of their sentence. During this time they are medically examined and classified, and
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