FRIDAY, JANUARY 15, 1989
TRANSFER OF SENTENCED PERSONS POSSIBLE LATER THIS YEAR : GOVERNOR
ARRANGEMENTS FOR HONG KONG TO PARTICIPATE SENTENCED EUROPE CONVENTION ON THE TRANSFER INTO EFFECT LATER THIS YEAR, THE THIS (FRIDAY) AFTERNOON.
OF GOVERNOR
IN THE COUNCIL OF PERSONS WOULD
SJR DAVID
BY THEN A HONG KONG RESIDENT SERVING A SENTENCE WHICH WAS ALSO A PARTY TO THE CONVENTION MIGHT APPLY TO SENTENCE BACK IN THE TERRITORY, HE SAID.
WILSON,
COME
SAID
IN A COUNTRY COMPLETE HIS
ADVANTAGE
SERVICES THAT REHABILITATED IN AN
SPEAKING AT THE ANNUAL INSPECTION OF THE CORRECTIONAL DEPARTMENT, SIR DAVID SAID THE SCHEME HAD THE THOSE WHO HAD COMMITTED CRIME OVERSEAS COULD BE ENVIRONMENT FAMILIAR TO THEM.
TWO
OTHER NEW
AND
REHABILITATION PROGRAMMES WOULD ALSO BE INTRODUCED THIS YEAR, NAMELY THE RELEASE UNDER SUPERVISION SCHEME THE PRE-RELEASE EMPLOYMENT SCHEME.
AIM OF
THESE SCHEMES WAS TO HELP
SIR DAVID NOTED THAT THE PRISONERS TO REINTEGRATE THEMSELVES SUCCESSFULLY AS LAW-ABIDING CITIZENS.
INTO THE COMMUNITY
WILL BE RELEASED UNDER
THEIR SENTENCES,
PRISONERS "UNDER THESE SCHEMES, THE CAREFUL SUPERVISION AND GUIDANCE BEFORE COMPLETING HE SAID.
CAN BE "THE COMMUNITY
REASSURED THAT THOSE WHO HAVE NOT A DANGER TO CLEARLY DEMONSTRATED THEIR SUITABILITY, OR WHO MIGHT BE OTHERS, WILL NOT BE SELECTED," SIR DAVID STRESSED.
HAD BERN HE WAS ALSO PLEASED TO NOTE THAT MUCH MORE ATTENTION
IN PARTICULAR THROUGH THE GIVEN TO THE REHABILITATION OF OFFENDERS,
EDUCATIONAL CLASSES FOR YOUNG PROVISION OF VOCATIONAL TRAINING AND OFFENDERS IN THE TRAINING CENTRES.
"IT IS ENCOURAGING
TO KNOW THAT SUCII WELL IN PUBLIC EXAMINATIONS," HE SAID.
SIR DAVID
SAID THE
PEOPLE ||AVE PERFORMED
CORRECTIONAL SERVICES DEPARTMENT WOULD THAT PRISONERS CONTINUE TO LOOK INTO OTHER WAYS OF HELPING TO ENSURE WOULD NOT REVERT TO CRIME WHEN THEY WERE RELEASED.
"BOTH THE INDIVIDUAL AND THE COMMUNITY AS A WHOLE BENEFIT
CONTRIBUTING AND PRODUCTIVE MEMBER
A FORMER CRIMINAL BECOMES A SOCIETY, HE ADDED.
SIR
"
ADDED
OF THAT
WOULD BE
THE CORRECTIONAL SERVICES THERE
THAT
WHEN
OF
DEPARTMENT,
ON THE WORK DAVID
OCCASIONS
WHICH ON
THE ITS NORMAL SCOPE. DEPARTMENT WAS CALLED ON TO PERFORM DUTIES OUTSIDE
PLAYED THE DEPARTMENT AN EXAMPLE OF THIS WAS THE ROLE
IN THE RUNNING OF THE CLOSED CENTRES FOR VIETNAMESE REFUGEES.
THE GOVERNOR