PUBLIC ORDER
Inmates are further assisted, through individual and group counselling, to gain more insight into problems arising from their social inadequacies. They are helped to become better prepared to cope with difficulties upon release, including the finding of suitable accommodation, a job or school placement.
After-care officers contact supervisees regularly after release, providing them with appropriate assistance and guidance, and ensuring that supervision requirements are strictly complied with. A breach of supervision conditions may result in recall for further training.
The success of the programmes is measured by the percentage of supervisees who complete supervision without reconviction and, where applicable, remain drug-free. At the end of 1989, the success rates were 94.2 per cent for the detention centre inmates, 66.2 per cent for male training centre inmates, 93.2 per cent for female training centre inmates, 86.4 per cent for young male prisoners and 88.9 per cent for young female prisoners, 70.4 per cent for male drug addiction treatment centre inmates and 76.7 per cent for female drug addiction treatment centre inmates.
Release Under Supervision
The Release Under Supervision and Pre-release Employment Schemes have been in operation since July 1988. Prisoners who have served not less than half or 20 months (whichever period is the longer) of a sentence of three years or more may apply for release under the supervision of the department's after-care officers. Under the Pre-release Employment Scheme, prisoners who are serving a sentence of two years or more, and are within six months of completing their sentence, may apply for release. If their applications are successful they then work and live in a designated hostel under the supervision of after-care officers for the balance of their sentences. Prisoners who breach supervision conditions may be recalled to serve the remainder of their sentences. Up to the end of 1989, there were 171 applications for the Release Under Supervision Scheme and 322 for the Pre-release Employment Scheme. So far only nine prisoners were released by the Governor under the Release Under Supervision Scheme and 32 under the Pre-release Employment Scheme upon the advice of the Release Under Supervision Board.
Correctional Services Industries
Correctional Services industries aim to keep prisoners gainfully employed, thereby reducing the risk of unrest through boredom and lack of constructive activities. The industries also save public revenue by providing products and services to government departments and subvented organisations at reasonable prices.
Prisoners are paid for their work and earnings can be used to make purchases from the canteen. But more importantly, industrial production helps prisoners to acquire the habit of doing useful work.
The industries run a number of trades, the largest being laundry and garment making. Other major trades include silk-screening, printing, envelope-making, bookbinding, shoe-making, fibreglass-work, metal-work, leather-work, precast concrete and carpentry. The commercial value of goods and services provided for the year is estimated to be $210.1 million.
Closed Centres and Detention Centres
The Correctional Services Department has been responsible for the management of closed centres for Vietnamese refugees since the establishment of the first centre in July 1982.
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