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Medical Services
All institutions have their own hospital providing basic medical treatment, health and dental care to inmates. Those requiring specialist treatment are either referred to a visiting consultant or to specialist clinics in public hospitals. Although HIV infection and AIDS are not a problem among inmates, the CSD has established guidelines for its staff in handling such cases, as well as a programme of education and prevention. Ante-natal and post-natal care is provided in institutions for female inmates, but babies are normally delivered in public hospitals. The Siu Lam Psychiatric Centre treats prisoners with mental health problems, and offers psychiatric consultations and assessments for inmates referred by other institutions and the courts.
Psychological Services
Psychological services are provided to inmates to enhance their psychological well- being and to correct their behaviour. Clinical psychologists and trained officers. provide special treatment programmes for sex offenders, inmates with addictive problems and young offenders as well as long-term prisoners. Professional consultation is offered to the courts, review boards and institutional management to assist decision-making on the management and rehabilitation of offenders.
After-care Services
After-care supervision is provided to persons discharged from training, detention and drug addiction treatment centres, young prisoners and those discharged under the 'Post-release Supervision of Prisoners', 'Conditional Release', 'Release Under Supervision' and 'Pre-release Employment' Schemes. After-care services aim at facilitating rehabilitation and reintegration into society. A rapport among the supervisees, their families and the after-care staff is cultivated to help the supervisees tackle any obstacles on their path to rehabilitation. Throughout the statutory supervision period, regular contacts are maintained between the after-care staff and their respective supervisees to ensure that the supervisees settle well into the community and comply with the conditions of the supervision orders. Any breach of the supervision conditions may result in the supervisees being recalled for further period of training, treatment or imprisonment.
Under the 'Release Under Supervision' and 'Pre-release Employment' Schemes, successful applicants may be discharged directly from prison for after-care supervision or permitted to go out to work and live in a hostel with after-care services. Both schemes aim at enabling suitable, eligible and motivated prisoners to serve their sentences in an open environment with supervision.
The Post-release Supervision of Prisoners Scheme provides after-care supervision for certain categories of adult prisoners to facilitate their rehabilitation and re- integration into society. Prisoners breaching the supervision conditions may be recalled to serve the balance of their unexpired supervision period. Under the 'Conditional Release Scheme', which has been operational since June 1997, prisoners with indeterminate sentences may, before the Long-term Prison Sentences Review Board makes recommendations as to whether their indeterminate sentences should be converted to determinate ones, be conditionally released under supervision for a specific period to test their determination and ability to lead a law-abiding life.