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Public Order
services such as pre-release reintegration orientation courses, making arrangements for the persons in custody to meet their family members and supplying them with information on community resources.
Drug Addiction Treatment
The CSD runs a compulsory treatment programme for convicted drug addicts, which is an alternative to imprisonment sentence. Young addicts aged between 14 and 20 are accommodated separately from the adults. The programme includes two to 12 months in- centre treatment, followed by one-year statutory supervision.
Medical Services
Most of the correctional facilities have a hospital to provide persons in custody with primary medical treatment, health care and dental services. Persons in custody who need specialist treatment are referred to visiting specialists or specialist outpatient clinics of the Hospital Authority or the Department of Health.
Psychological Services
Psychological services are provided to offenders to improve their psychological well-being and to change their offending behaviour. Clinical psychologists and trained officers provide special treatment programmes for sex offenders, violent offenders, offenders with drug addiction problems, young offenders and women offenders who are in need of psychological service/ treatment. They also provide assessment reports to the courts, review boards and institutional management on request. The CSD has adopted an empirically-based protocol and clinical measures for assessing the offender's risk of re-offending upon discharge.
Supervision Services
Statutory supervision is provided to discharged young prisoners, people discharged from training, rehabilitation, detention and drug addiction treatment centres, and offenders discharged under the Release Under Supervision, Pre-release Employment and Post-release Supervision schemes, as well as offenders discharged under a conditional release order or post- release supervision order. The aim of supervision services is to help ex-offenders reintegrate into society. Any breach of the supervision conditions may result in recall for a further period of training, treatment or imprisonment.
In 2012, 2,093 offenders were discharged under supervision and 1,117 people were recalled for breach of supervision conditions. Including those discharged in previous years and yet to complete their supervision, there were 2,278 people under the CSD's supervision at the end of 2012.
Community Support
Community acceptance and support are paramount to an offender's rehabilitation and reintegration into society. The Committee on Community Support for Rehabilitated Offenders is a non-statutory advisory body appointed by the Commissioner of Correctional Services to advise on rehabilitation programmes as well as strategies on reintegration and publicity. It comprises community leaders and professionals from various sectors and representatives of
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