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PUBLIC ORDER
Pik Uk Correctional Institution is a maximum security institution for young offenders with facilities for a reception centre, a training centre and a prison. Young adults under 25 years of age are also detained there for pre-sentence reports on their suitability for admission to a detention centre.
Lai Sun Correctional Institution on Hei Ling Chau Island provides accommodation for young prisoners aged between 14 and 20.
Cape Collinson Correctional Institution and Lai King Training Centre are equipped with a full range of facilities for young offenders sentenced to a training centre.
A very effective detention centre programme is administered at Sha Tsui Detention Centre. It is a medium security institution on Lantau Island, divided into two sections, one for the detention of 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.
Phoenix House provides halfway house accommodation for young persons released under supervision from detention or training centres. Residents usually stay in the house for up to three months before they are permitted to live at home or in other accommodation while continuing under after-care supervision. While residing in Phoenix House, they are required to go to work or attend school but must return in the evening for counselling and therapy.
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 Centres 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.
Female offenders under 21 years of age are housed at Tai Tam Gap Correctional Institution where there are separate sections for Training Centre inmates, young prisoners and persons on remand.
Bauhinia House serves as a halfway house for female inmates released under supervision from the training centre.
Drug Addiction Treatment
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Under the Drug Addiction Treatment' Centres Ordinance (Chapter 244 of the Laws of Hong Kong), the courts are empowered to sentence a drug addict found guilty of an offence punishable by imprisonment to detention in a drug addiction treatment centre. The period of detention varies from a minimum of two months to a maximum of 12 months depending on the inmate's progress. This is followed by 12 months statutory after-care supervision.
There are two drug addiction treatment centres for male addicts of different age groups. Accommodation is provided in Hei Ling Chau Addiction Treatment Centre for adult addicts and in Nei Kwu Chau Addiction Treatment Centre for those under the age of 21. For female addicts, the treatment centre is located in a section of the Tai Lam Centre for Women. As at December 31, 1986 the numbers of inmates undergoing treatment were: in Hei Ling Chau Addiction Treatment Centre 892, Nei Kwu Chau Addiction Treatment Centre 130, and Tai Lam Centre for Women 100.
The drug addiction treatment programme aims firstly to detoxify and to restore the physical health of the drug addicts, and secondly through the application of therapeutic