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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1983
+SO, FAR FROM BEING RESOLVED, THE PROBLEM HAS BECOME RATHER WORSE, AND WE MUST RELUCTANTLY CONTINUE TO OPERATE THE CLOSED CENTRES.
+WE SHALL ALSO CONTINUE STRONGLY TO SUPPORT THE EFFORTS OF THE UNITED NATIONS HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR REFUGEES TO PERSUADE OTHER GOVERNMENTS TO ACCEPT MORE REFUGEES FOR RESETTLEMENT, AND TO TAKE OUR OWN INITIATIVES TO THIS END WHENEVER OPPORTUNITIES ARISE, HE SAID.
CORRECTIONAL PROGRAMMES EXTENDED
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MORE CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTIONS ARE BEING PROVIDED AND NEW SCHEMES FOR TRAINING AND REHABILITATION INTRODUCED TO COPE WITH THE GROWING POPULATION IN SUCH INSTITUTIONS, THE GOVERNOR, SIR EDWARD YOUDE, TOLD THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL TODAY.
+LA! SUN CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTION, FOR SOME 200 YOUNG OFFENDERS UNDER THE AGE OF 21, WILL BE OPENED LATER THIS YEAR AND SHEK PIK MAXIMUM SECURITY" PRISON WILL BE OPENED EARLY NEXT YEAR, HE SAID,
+OTHER IMPORTANT DEVELOPMENTS WILL INCLUDE THE INTRODUCTION OF THE PAROLE AND PRE-RELEASE EMPLOYMENT SCHEMES, WHICH WILL HELP OFFENDERS ON THEIR RELEASE TO INTEGRATE THEMSELVES PROPERLY INTO SOCIETY AND NOT TO TURN AGAIN TO CRIME.
+THESE SCHEMES REPRESENT AN EXTENSION OF EXISTING CORRECTIONAL PROGRAMMES, AND WILL, WE HOPE, EVENTUALLY LEAD TO A REDUCTION IN OUR PENAL POPULATION.
+IN ADDITION, A PROGRAMME OF IMPROVED VOCATIONAL TRAINING FOR YOUNG OFFENDERS WILL BE INTRODUCED NEXT YEAR, HE SAID.
ON THE DRIVE AGAINST CORRUPTION, THE GOVERNOR SAID UNRELENTING EFFORTS TO ERADICATE THIS SOCIAL EVIL WOULD CONTINUE.
+GONE IS THE SYNDICATED CORRUPTION WHICH CAUSED SO MUCH DISTRESS IN THE SIXTIES AND EARLY SEVENTIES AND NEW STANDARDS OF PUBLIC CONDUCT HAVE EMERGED, HE SAID.
+THERE HAS ALSO BEEN A MARKED CHANGE IN PUBLIC ATTITUDES: THE MANY REPORTS RECEIVED FROM ORDINARY CITIZENS INDICATE THAT THEY ARE NOT PREPARED TO TOLERATE CORRUPTION,
+ IN SUSTAINING ITS PRESSURES ON THE CORRUPT. THE ICAC HAS THE FULL CONFIDENCE AND BACKING OF THE GOVERNMENT, + HE SAID.
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