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Public Order
In 2013, a daily average of about 4,639 persons were engaged in productive work, providing government departments and subvented bodies with a wide range of goods and services. These include office furniture, uniforms, leather products, hospital linen, filter masks, fibreglass litter containers, traffic signs, precast concrete products and metal products, laundry services for hospitals and clinics, book binding for public libraries, printing work, file jackets and envelopes. The market value of these goods and services plus other domestic work and services provided by the CSD, was $379.5 million in 2013.
Welfare and Counselling Services
Rehabilitation Officers look after the welfare of persons in custody, and help them deal with personal problems arising from their detention or imprisonment. They conduct individual and group counselling sessions and assist in running various rehabilitation programmes and 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. Young addicts aged between 14 and 20 are accommodated separately from the adults, but the length of treatment is the same and 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 persons in custody 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, and young persons and women in custody. 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 young persons discharged from custody, people discharged from training, rehabilitation, detention and drug addiction treatment centres, those discharged under the Release Under Supervision, Pre-release Employment and Post-release Supervision schemes, and those discharged under a conditional release order or post-release supervision order. The aim of supervision is to help those supervised reintegrate into society. Any breach of the supervision conditions may result in recall for a further period of training, treatment or imprisonment.
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