SECRET
HONG KONG
CIVIL AFFAIRS POLICY DIRECTIVES
PRISONS
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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, on the same lines as in pre-war days.
2.
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 camp for
the short sentences of imprisonment which were so numerous as to
overcrowd the prisons. This camp, if created, should be on the
Mainland.
3.
Colonial Office Memorandum on modern conceptions of
penal administration (prepared for the Controller of Development and Welfare in the West Indies) should be used for general
guidance in so far as it is applicable to local conditions.
4.
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.
5.
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In the re-staffing of the prisons the proportion of
non-European Frison Officers should be increased.
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