CO129-591-8 Policy directives 10-3-1944 - 17-8-1944 — Page 20

SECRET

HONG KONG

CIVIL AFFAIRS POLICY DIRECTIVES

PRISONS

10/8/44.

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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

and early Police, on the same lines as in pre-war days, 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 titution 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.

છે. 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,

3. 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.

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

non-European Prison Officers should be increased.

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