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or training and rehabilitation are being introduced. Lai Sun

correctional institution, for some 200 young offenders under

the age of 21, will be opened later this

this year, and Shek Pik maximum security prison will be opened early next year.

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crime.

integrate

turn again to

extension of existing

Other important developments will include the

introduction of the parole and pre-release employment schemes,

which will help offenders on their release to themselves properly into society and not to

These schemes represent an correctional programmes, and will, we a reduction in our penal population. of improved vocational training for introduced next year.

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hope, eventually lead to

In addition, a programme

young offenders will be

Although some of the more vociferous critics of Hong

Kong would have us believe otherwise, it is not the case that Hong Kong compares badly with other parts of the world in the level of corruption. What is true is that Hong Kong makes a very determined effort to eradicate corruption, and has already

achieved considerable success.

Gone is the syndicated

corruption which caused So much distress in the sixties and

early seventies; and new standards of public conduct have

emerged. 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.

But the unrelenting effort to eradicate this social evil will

continue. In sustaining its pressures on the corrupt, the ICAC

has the full confidence and backing of the Government.

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