PUBLIC ORDER
supervisees, their families and the after-care staff is cultivated to help the supervisees tackle obstacles in 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 supervisee being recalled for a 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 Scheme provides after-care supervision for certain. categories of adult prisoners to facilitate their rehabilitation and reintegration into society. Prisoners breaching the supervision conditions may be recalled to serve the balance of their unexpired supervision period. 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. Prisoners whose indeterminate sentences have been converted to determinate ones may also be ordered by the board to be placed under post-release supervision.
Success rates of the after-care programmes are measured by the percentage of supervisees completing supervision without reconviction and, as the case may be, remaining drug-free. In 2002, the success rates were 95 per cent for detention centre inmates; 62 per cent for male training centre inmates; 89 per cent for female training centre inmates; 88 per cent for young male prisoners; 100 per cent for young female prisoners; 64 per cent for male drug addiction treatment centre inmates; 77 per cent for female drug addiction treatment centre inmates; 100 per cent for the Release under Supervision Scheme; 100 per cent for the Pre-release Employment Scheme; 85 per cent for the Post-release Supervision Scheme and 100 per cent for those prisoners whose indeterminate sentence has been converted to a determinate one and ordered to have post-release supervision. There were no supervisees who completed their supervision period under the conditional release order and the Rehabilitation Centres Ordinance in 2002. Altogether, there were 2 625 males and 333 females under active after-care supervision at year-end.
Services Provided by Non-governmental Organisations
Non-governmental organisations such as the Society of Rehabilitation and Crime Prevention, Hong Kong, Buddha Light Association of Hong Kong, Caritas Lok Heep Club, Hong Kong Christian Kun Sun Association, the Christian Prison Pastoral Fellowship Ltd, Save the Children Hong Kong and Wu Oi Christian Centre provide services to help offenders and discharged inmates reintegrate into the community. They provide services such as case work, counselling, hostel accommodation, employment assistance, recreational activities and supporting service to children whose parents are in custody.
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