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SECRET
HONG KONG
CIVIL AFFAIRS POLICY DIRECTIVES
PRISONS
10/8/44.
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1.
During the period of military administration the
Prisons Department should be administered as a branch of the
Police Department under the general control of the Commissioner
of Police.
2. The administration of the Prisong on the same lines as
in pre-war days should be re-introduced under the control of the Commissioner of Police and Early consideration should be given to
the adoption of the recommendations for reducing the prison
population which were advanced by the Commission on Prisons in 1939, in particular, the substitution of sentences of detention
in a labour comp for the short sentences of imprisonment which
This camp, 1f were so numerous as to overcrowd the prisons.
created, should be on the Mainland.
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Efforts should be made to provide useful employment
for as many prisoners as possible. This will entail the creation of a staff of industrial instructors for which suitably
qualified Chinese candidates might be found.
Special transport should be provided for the carriage
and of prisoners, staff and stores between Stanley Prison and the City.
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The needs of the Prison Hospital on re-occupation should
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be borne in mind by the Medical authorities.
In the re-staffing of the prisons the proportion of
non-European Prison Officers should be increased.
3. Colonial office memorandum
Conception of penal administration (profond in Care / velfimit. Welfare
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