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difficult recalcitrant youths. Pre-sentence reports for suitability for admission to a detention centre for young adults between 21 and 25 years of age are also compiled by this institution. Young prisoners who do not require the highest degree of security are held at Lai Sun Correctional Institution on Hei Ling Chau.
Cape Collinson Correctional Institution and Lai King Training Centre provide a full range of facilities for those sentenced to be detained in a training centre. The older youths aged 18 to 20 are held at Cape Collinson Correctional Institution while those between 14 and 18 years of age are held at Lai King Training Centre.
A very effective detention centre programme is administered at Sha Tsui Detention Centre on Lantau Island. This medium security institution is divided into two sections, one for young persons aged between 14 and 20 and the other for young adults aged between 21 and 24. Strict discipline, hard work, strenuous physical effort and a vigorous routine are emphasised in the programme.
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Nei Kwu Chau Addiction Treatment Centre provides treatment for young persons who are addicted to drugs and have been sentenced for treatment.
A halfway_house, known as Phoenix House, has residential facilities for 120 persons released under supervision from a detention or training centre. While residing in this house, they are required to go to work or school but must return in the evenings for counselling, further therapy and close supervision. Residents generally live in the house for up to three months before they are finally permitted to live at home or in other private accommodation while continuing under after-care supervision.
Female Offenders
Tai Lam Centre for Women in the New Territories provides accommodation for women sentenced to imprisonment. It also has a remand section and a separate section where women addicts are given treatment under the Drug Addiction Treatment Centre Ordin- ance. The majority of women are employed in a large industrial laundry which renders services to a number of government departments and public hospitals.
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Young female offenders under 21 years of age are accommodated at Tai Tam Gap Correctional Institution. There are separate sections for Training Centre inmates, young prisoners and remands. Bauhinia House serves as a halfway house for girls released under supervision from the training centre.
Drug Addiction Treatment
Under the Drug Addiction Treatment Centre Ordinance, the courts are empowered to sentence drug addicts found guilty of offences punishable by imprisonment to compulsory treatment in a Drug Addiction Treatment Centre for between four and 12 months. This is followed by one year's compulsory after-care supervision.
The department administers three Drug Addiction Treatment Centres, namely Hei Ling Chau Addiction Treatment Centre for adult males, Nei Kwu Chau Addiction Treatment Centre for young males under the age of 20 and a part of Tai Lam Centre for Women for female addicts. Since 1980, there has been a gradual increase in the number of persons admitted for treatment, from 1 518 to 2 621 at the end of 1985 although the number of young addicts admitted has remained constant over the last two years.
The Drug Addiction Treatment Programme is carried out in two stages, in-centre care and after-care supervision following release. The treatment process involves the uprooting of physical, psychological and emotional dependence on drugs, the restoration of physical health and assistance towards readjustment into the community. A halfway house known