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domestic chores. A variety of sports and recreational activities, library and hobby groups
re available.
Tai Tam Gap Correctional Institution accommodates young female offenders under the age
of 21. It has separate sections for training centre inmates, young prisoners and persons on remand. In addition, the institution accommodates young female illegal immigrants and young unattached female Vietnamese refugees. Training centre inmates and young female prisoners attend educational and vocational training classes. The centre has a girls' marching display team and a pipe band which have received wide acclaim for their high standards of performance.
Drug Addiction Treatment
Convicted drug dependents are placed in the compulsory programme run by the department, providing the courts with an alternative to imprisonment for drug dependents who have been convicted of minor offences. The Hei Ling Chau Drug Addiction Treatment Centre (incorporating a young inmates centre) is for male drug dependents, while a section in the Tai Lam Centre for Women is for females. The treatment programme requires an inmate to stay at a centre for a period from four months to one year, followed by one year's compulsory supervision after release. During treatment, emphasis is placed on discipline and open-air physical activity - essential to the success of the different forms of therapy - supported by a comprehensive after-care service.
The Hei Ling Chau Drug Addiction Treatment Centre separately accommodates single adult and young male Vietnamese refugees and, until September 1982, young illegal immigrants aged from 14 to 20 who arrived alone in Hong Kong.
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After-care Service
After-care supervision is vital in helping inmates released from training centres, detention centres and drug addiction treatment centres, as well as certain young prisoners, re-integrate into the community. The after-care officer's objective is to build up a good relationship with the inmate and his family. After discharge, the officer visits the supervisee's home and place of work to maintain personal contact, offer advice and counselling and ensure that the conditions of the supervision order are followed. If a supervisee fails to comply with any conditions of a supervision order, he may be recalled.
The supervision period is three years for training centre inmates and one year for inmates released from detention centres, drug addiction treatment centres and prisons. The encour- aging success rates of the correctional and drug addiction treatment programmes could not have been achieved without after-care supervision. Success rates for centres are defined as the percentage of inmates who complete the statutory supervision period without reconviction or taking drugs again. Up to the end of 1982, the training centre success rate was 65.88 per cent and the drug addiction treatment centre success rate was 67.27 per cent. The success rate for detention centres was 94.28 per cent and that for young prisoners was 78.41 per cent.
Correctional Services Industries
The momentum of the department's industrial programme increased during 1982 with the introduction of new industries for the manufacture of pre-cast concrete products and machine-made envelopes. The latter industry will eventually supply the government's entire requirements for envelopes, currently 50 million per year. The Pik Uk laundry continued to provide a service to government hospitals. Additional stalls were built at the Hei Ling Chau pig farm to increase capacity to 700 animals.