Drug Addiction Treatment
The CSD runs a compulsory treatment programme for convicted drug addicts. that provides the courts with an alternative to imprisonment. Male inmates are accommodated at Hei Ling Chau Addiction Treatment Centre and Lai Sun Correctional Institution, and females at Hei Ling Chau Addiction Treatment Centre (Annex). Adult and young inmates are accommodated separately. An inmate undergoes in-centre treatment from two to 12 months, followed by one year's statutory after-care supervision. The programme is based on therapeutic treatment, discipline, work programmes, outdoor physical activities and comprehensive after- care service.
Medical Services
All institutions have their own hospitals providing basic medical treatment, health and dental care to inmates. Those requiring specialist treatment are either referred to visiting consultants or to specialist clinics in public hospitals. HIV and AIDS are not a problem in the institutions. However, the department has established guidelines for its staff on 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. Siu Lam Psychiatric Centre treats prisoners with mental health problems, and offers psychiatric consultations and assessments for inmates on referral from other institutions and the courts.
Psychological Services
Psychological services are provided to inmates to enhance their psychological well-being and to change their offending behaviour. Clinical psychologists and trained officers provide special treatment programmes for inmates such as sex offenders, violent offenders, inmates with drug addiction problems and young offenders. They also provide assessment reports to the courts, review boards and institutional management to assist decision-making on the management and rehabilitation of offenders. In 2004, the CSD's Psychological Services Unit conducted 27 178 counselling sessions for inmates and prepared 441 assessments reports for the courts and related service boards.
After-care Services
After-care supervision is provided to
provided to persons
persons discharged from training, rehabilitation, detention and drug addiction treatment centres, young prisoners and prisoners discharged under the Release Under Supervision, Pre-release Employment and Post-release Supervision schemes, as well as prisoners discharged under a conditional release order or post-release supervision order. The aim of after-care services is to facilitate supervisees' rehabilitation and reintegration into society. Rapport among the 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
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