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HONG KONG ANNUAL REPORT, 1954

are given facilities to appeal if they wish to do so. Victoria Prison buildings are out-of-date and rather gloomy, but the installation of fluorescent lighting has done something to brighten the interior. The prison received 14,839 prisoners during the year and had a daily average of 695 occupants.

Lai Chi Kok Prison

Lai Chi Kok is a small prison of the maximum security type which can accommodate up to 240 women prisoners. It is situated on the mainland on the out- skirts of Kowloon. The Matron and staff are all locally employed. The atmosphere is bright and cheerful, and the women work willingly at simple tasks. Most sentences are short, and there is not time to teach more than the usual domestic duties. A total of 1,418 women were received into the prison during the year and there was a daily average of 102 occupants.

Stanley Training Centre

The buildings used by the former Stanley Reforma- tory School, the boys of which have been transferred to the care of the Social Welfare Office, now house boys of the Stanley Training Centre. This institution, run on the lines of an open camp, receives boys sentenced to a maximum of three years, the statutory minimum being nine months, as in the Borstal sentence in England. The Centre can take a maximum of 120 boys and 58 have been accepted this year.

Tung Tau Wan Training Centre

The huts formerly known as Stanley Prison Annexe, which are outside the perimeter of Stanley Prison and well clear of any buildings housing prisoners,

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