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Wednesday, January 16, 1974
NEW PRISONS SUPERINTENDENT IS A LADY
An expert social worker in crime psychology and administration
of correctional institutes has joined the prisons service in Hong Kong.
She is Miss K. Anne Haughton, who took up her post this week as
Superintendent of the Tai Lam Centre for Women which has about 140 inmates
at present.
A Canadian citizen, Miss Haughton was recommended to Hong Kong
by the Sydney Commissioner for Corrective Services under whom she worked
as Executive Assistant in charge of staff development.
She has five years of practical experience in Canada and Australia,
and holds an honours degree in psychology and sociology from McGill University,
a master's degree in correctional administration from the University of
Ottawa, and a post-graduate degree in criminology from Sydney University.
While in Canada, she worked as a Classification Officer/Psychologist
in the Maximum Security Federal Prison for Women and as a Prison Officer
in a male institute for alcoholics, drug addicts and sex offenders, as well
as doing research for the Canadian government.
Her first impressions of Hong Kong's small group of women offenders
are that they are younger, more polite and appear to be more amenable to
discipline.
"The Tai Lam Centre itself is more institutionalised, the discipline
is strict and both the security and administration is good,
" she said.
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