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HEAD 24 –—– PRISONS DEPARTMENT

Estimate 1959/60

Revised estimate 1958/59

$9,122,100

8,472,000

Approved estimate 1958/59

8,586,900

Actual expenditure 1957/58

7,200,192

Permanent staff

Net increase

1958/59

735

1959/60

Difference

919

+ 184

184

New posts

1 Superintendent*

1 Chief Officer*

12 Principal Officers, Prisons Officers,

Class I & II*

4 Principal Warders*

6 Assistant Principal Warders*

118 Warders (106*)

1 Hospital Supervisor*

1 Assistant Hospital Supervisor*

1 Student Nurse/Nurse

6 Male Charge Nurses and Male Nurses*

1 Leader

1 Executive Grade Officer

6 Clerks (5*)

4 Telephone Operators*

2 Certified and Primary School Masters

4 After Care Officers

1 Workshop Instructor

1 Workshop Instructor (Woman)

1 Master Tailor

5 Trade Instructors

1 Office Attendant*

2 Messengers*

4 Coolies*

184

* Approved by Special Warrant during the year to staff the new prison at Tai Lam for convicted drug addicts.

One

One additional Executive Officer is required to take charge of the Personnel Office thus releasing a uniformed officer for other duties. The centralization of all prisoners' records at Victoria Prison makes it possible for old records to be collated if prisoners return on reconviction and an extra clerk is required to deal with this work. One additional schoolmaster will allow the Adult Education scheme at Stanley Prison to be gradually extended and the other is required to run extra classes at Cape Collinson Training Centre where the muster of inmates has been increased: the latter Centre also requires one additional leader. post of Woman Workshop Instructor is required for Lai Chi Kok Prison to organize the tailoring section and to supervise machine-sewing and needlework. Another male Workshop Instructor and two Trade Instructors are required to organize and supervise the industries in carpentry and shoemaking at the new Tai Lam Prison. The expanding tailoring industry at Stanley Prison necessitates an additional Master Tailor and one Trade Instructor. To allow expansion of the shoemaking industry there, an additional Trade Instructor is provided. The remaining Trade Instructor is required to organize a shoemaking class at Stanley Training Centre. Twelve additional Warders are required to cope with the constantly increasing amount of escort work. A post of Nurse is created for the two Training Centres and for the Families Clinic at Stanley Prison which caters for 613 families. Four After-care Officers are required to supervise the drug addicts discharged from the Tai Lam Prison.