L 7
LAI CHI KOK FEMALE PRISON.
Estimated value
Industry & Labour.
Daily average of prisoners employed.
of work for the
year. $
Estimated value of the work of one prisoner.
$
Laundry 113 13,036.80 115.37 Tailoring and Sewing 34 4,152.00 122.12 Weaving 9 1,041.60 115.73 Cookhouse 10 1,478.00 147.80 Prison Domestic 26 2,473.60 95.14 Gardens (30 days) 13 141.20 10.86 Total...... 205 22,323.2028. In theory all prisoners employed do 7 hours work daily on weekdays. In practice, however, this is not the case and this matter is receiving attention.
29. As mentioned elsewhere in this report Prison Industries have suffered from lack of technical instructors. This does not apply to the Printing Shop where five European Officers are employed on the Printing Staff. It is hoped to engage during 1939 Technical Officers to supervise the Tailoring, Carpentering, Tinsmithing and Blacksmithing Industries and also to train a few members of the disciplinary staff in these and other trades so that they will be able to supervise the work of the prisoners as well as acting in a disciplinary capacity.
SPIRITUAL AND MENTAL TRAINING.
29. No measures exist at present for the mental training of prisoners. Prisoners may, however, purchase books for their own use and also have access to books, English and Chinese, from the prisoners library.
30. Spiritual training is confined to visits paid on Sundays by officially appointed Chaplains and by approved preachers and laymen.
31.
PHYSICAL TRAINING.
There is no physical training apart from daily walking exercise for prisoners employed in indoor occupations.
PERSONS AWAITING TRIAL.
32. Persons awaiting trial are confined in a separate "Remand Block" and do not associate with convicted prisoners at any time. Owing to overcrowding it has been found necessary, from time to time, to confine three remand prisoners in a cell, but this is avoided as far as possible.
33. The reopening of a small part of the old Victoria Gaol, which is adjacent to the Courts, for the accommodation of Remand prisoners and persons awaiting trial has been approved by Government. This will answer the double purposes of relieving the strain on the accommodation in the Prison at Stanley and stopping the daily journeys by motor van of such persons between Stanley and Hong Kong.
YOUNG OFFENDERS.
34. The confinement and training of young offenders is carried out in the Juvenile Remand Home in Hong Kong. The Home is administered by the Commissioner of Police. The establishment of an institution to be run somewhat on the lines of a Home Borstal is under consideration.