CO129-591-8 Policy directives 10-3-1944 - 17-8-1944 — Page 19

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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, and Early consideration should be given to the adoption of the recommend- ations for reducing the prison population which were advanced by the Commission on Prisons in 1939, in particular, the subs ti tution 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,

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28. 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. In the re-staffing of the prisons the proportion of

non-European Prison Officers should be increased.