PRISONS
HONG KONG DIRECTIVE.
FIRST DRAFT.
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1.
Accommodation consisted of:-
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Hong Kong Prison (Stanley):- 1476 single cells for males (of which
18 were used as stores).
Victoria Remand Prison:
Lai Chi Kok Female Prison:
166 male pris uners.
200 (?) (accurate figure not found).
2. The chief disability under which the Frison 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.
made of a lack of technical instructors.
Complaint was
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4. In the first instance the Prisons Department wilt be
administered as a branch of the Police Department under general
control of the Commissioner of Police.
5. The administration of the Fri sons on the same lines as those
in force in pre-war days should be re-introduced under the control
of the Commissioner of Folice and if practical the recommendations adopted for reducing the prison population which were advanced by
the Commissioner of Prisons in 1939, The chief of these was the
substitution of sentences of detention in a camp for the short
sentences of imprisonment which were so numerous as to clutter up
the prison proper. Such camp if created was to be on the Mainland.
6. The Home for Juvenile Offenders formerly a sub-branch of the
Police Department should be transferred to the Prisons.
77. Efforts should be made to provide useful employment for as
many pri soners as possible. This will entail the creation of a staff
of industrial instructors which would be possible from among Chinese
graduates at the Fathers College, Aberdeen or the Emanuel College.
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