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Friday, December 21, 1973
NEW MEASURES TO BE INTRODUCED IN TRAINING CENTRES
To Deal With Younger And Less Amenable Offenders
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New measures are being proposed to deal more effectively with
the present generation of younger and less amenable offenders detained
in training centres.
These proposals are contained in the Training Centres (Amendment)
Bill 1973 which will soon be introduced into the Legislative Council.
The Bill, published in the Gazette today, reduces the minimum
period of detention from nine to six months so that those who are to
benefit from a short period of treatment need not be detained unnecessarily
long.
It provides that the period of supervision in future will run for
three years from the date of release rather than, as at present, for four
years from the date of sentence.
The existing system gives rise to the anomaly that those released
earlier are subject to a longer period of supervision than those for whom
an early release is considered undesirable.
A person who fails to comply with any requirements specified in
a supervision notice shall be liable, upon conviction, to a fine of $5,000
and imprisonment for 12 months.
A section of the Bill provides that if a person is imprisoned for not
more than two years whilst he is being detained in a training centre or under
a supervision notice or order of recall, the sentence of detention or notice
or order shall be suspended until the expiration of his term of imprisonment.
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