PRISONS.
1.
HONG KONG DIRECTIVE.
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Accommodation consisted of:-
Hong Kong Prison (tanley):-
54172
FIRST DRAFT.
3/4/44
144
1476 single cells for males (of which
18 were used as stores).
Victoria Remand Prison:- 166 male prisoners.
Lai Chi Kok Female Prison:- 200 (7)-(segurate figure not found.
2. The chief disability under which the Pri son staff worked was
overcrowding.
There were in 1939 an average of 2832 prisoners at tanley
instead of 1458. Three prisonera 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 end 205 women in the Lai Chi Kok Prison. Complaint was mude
of a lack of technical instructors.
4. In the first instance the Prisons Depart .ent with be
administered as a branch of the Police Department under general
control of the Commissioner of Police.
5. The administration of the ©ri sons on the same lines as those
in force in pre-war days should be re-introduced under the control
of the Commissioner of olice and if practical the recommendations adopted for reducing the prison population which were advanced by
the Commissione s Prisons in 1939. The chief of these was the
substitution of sentences of detention in a camp for the short
sentence of imprisonment which were so numerous as to clutter up
the prison proper. Such camp if created was to be on the Jainland.
6. The Home for Juvenile offenders, formerly a sub-branch of the
Police Department, should be transferred to the Prisons
7. Efforts should be made to provide useful employment for 88
many prisoners as possible. This will entail the creation of a staff
of industrial instructors which would be possible from among Chinese
of local industral
graduates
there ollege§ Aberdeen or the
manuel College.
It will also involve the provision of adequate toola.
The importance of resuscitation and creation of emplacent for
/prisoners
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