PUBLIC ORDER
Drug Addiction Treatment
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The Prisons Department administers a compulsory placement programme for treatment of convicted drug dependents. This provides the courts with an alternative to prison for minor offenders who are found to be drug dependent. There are two drug addiction treatment centres: Hei Ling Chau Centre (incorporating the young inmate centre) and a section at Tai Lam Centre for Women. An inmate of a drug addiction treatment centre is required to stay for a period of four to 12 months, and is subject to one year's compulsory supervision following release. The treatment programme is based on discipline and physical activity - including work programmes and different forms of therapy - supported by a comprehensive after-care service.
At the Hei Ling Chau Drug Addiction Treatment Centre, work continued on a development project which, when completed, will provide additional facilities for 150 inmates. In addition, the construction of staff quarters is also being undertaken. A new piggery at the centre is being extended for the rearing of more than 750 pigs.
After-care Services
After-care supervision plays an important role in helping training centre, detention centre and drug addiction treatment centre inmates, as well as young prisoners, to re-establish themselves in society after release. After-care starts immediately after admission and steps are taken to build up a good relationship between the inmate, his family and the officer on after-care duties. After discharge, officers maintain close contact with the supervisee through visits to his home and place of work, offering advice, counselling as necessary and ensuring that the terms of the supervision order are followed.
Success rates for centres are defined as the percentage of inmates who complete the statutory supervision period without subsequent reconviction; in the case of drug addiction treatment centres they must also be drug free. The supervision period for former inmates from training centres is three years, while for detention centres, drug addiction treatment centres and prisons the period is 12 months. Based on these definitions, the programmes supplemented by the after-care service -- have achieved encouraging results and by the end of 1981, the training centre success rate was 64.99 per cent; the drug addiction treatment centre success rate was 66.91 per cent and that for detention centres was 94.58 per cent.
Prison Industries
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Prison industries continue to train inmates in a number of trades and better utilise inmate labour in providing goods and services for government use. The major industries include the manufacture of garments, shoes, fibreglass products, road signs, carpentry, printing, light engineering and laundering. The value of prison products in 1981 was $39 million compared with $29.8 million in 1980. The manufacture of pre-cast concrete kerbstones was implemented at Tai Lam Correctional Institution as a new trade in prison industries during year and a multi-storey laundry which each year can handle 5.5 million kilogrammes of clothing and linen from government hospitals and clinics, became operational at Pik Uk Prison in July 1981.
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Visiting Justices
Visiting Justices are appointed by the Governor and each penal establishment is visited by two Justices of the Peace (one official, one unofficial) fortnightly or monthly, depending on the type of institution. Visiting Justices are required to carry out certain statutory duties such as the investigation of complaints made to them by prisoners, the inspection of diets,