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Date:

28.11.86

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Reporter:

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PMS

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MR CHEONG:

The second point I would like to ask the

2 Secretary for Security, you mentioned three objectives.

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Yes.

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to keep them gainfully employed.

For providing prison work. Number one is

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S for S:

Yes.

MR CHEONG:

And in the light of the Commissioner of Correctional Services' statement about their being dangerous, I can well understand that. The second and the third objective all try to provide the inmates with a possibility of learning a skill, that hopefully when they go out they would have a skill available at their hands that, you know, that would make their turning right so to speak more easier.

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That's right.

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Now the type, first of all, I accept these

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Yes.

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But for the inmates to really learn the trade and to stand on his own feet and make a living, is it not worthwhile for them to be subjected to some sort of a training under a normal atmosphere that they would have encountered when they come

out to seek work? For example, instead of, you know, having tools let's say in a garment factory, you know. Would it not be better for them to be subjected under a training situation that they would

be at least able to encounter when they get out?

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You mean that there should be specific

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