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CIVIL AFFAIRS POLICY DIRECTIVES
18144
54132.
Second Draft
14/4/44.
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PRISONS
1.
Accommodation consisted of:-
Hong Kong Prison (Stanley):- 1476 single cells for males (of which
18 were used as stores).
Victoria Remand Prison:- 166 male prisoners.
Lai Chi Kok Female Prison:- 200
2. The chief disability under which the Prison staff worked
was overcrowding.
There were in 1939 an average of 2832 prisoners at Stanley instead of 1458. Three prisoners had to be housed in some cells intended for single prisoners.
3. Difficulty was experienced in finding useful employment for prisoners. In 1939 the daily average was 1391 men employed at
Stanley and 205 women in the Lai Chi Kok Prison. Complaint was
made of a lack of technical instructors......
During the period of military administration
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1) K. In the first thetence the Prisons Department should be administered as a branch of the Police Department under general
control of the Commisioner of Police.
2.) $• The administration of the Prisons on the same lines as
thaee in force in pre-war days should be re-introduced under the
early consideration should be given to control of the Commissioner of Police and if practicable the adoption of
recommendations adopted for reducing the prison population which
were advanced by the Commission on Prisons in 1939 The chief-
the substitution of sentences of detention in a
in particular,
of sand and the labour camp for the short sentences of imprisonment which were so
overcrowd
numerous as to slutter up the prisons
should
Has to be on the Mainland.
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Such camp, if created,
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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
for Suitable Cantization might be found.
staff of industrial instructors which would be possible from among
Suitably qualified Chinese