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treats prisoners with mental health problems, and offers psychiatric consultations and assessments for inmates referred by other institutions and the courts.

Psychological Services

Psychological services are provided to inmates to enhance their psychological well- being and to correct their offending behaviour. Clinical psychologists and trained officers provide special treatment programmes for sex offenders, inmates with addictive problems and young offenders as well as long-term prisoners. They also offer professional advice to courts, review boards and institutional management to assist decision-making on the management and rehabilitation of offenders.

After-care Services

After-care supervision is provided to persons discharged from training, detention and drug addiction treatment centres, young prisoners and prisoners discharged under the Release Under Supervision, Pre-release Employment, Post-release Supervision of Prisoners, Conditional Release and Supervision After Release Schemes. The aim of after-care services is to facilitate supervisees' rehabilitation and reintegration into society. A rapport among the supervisees, their families and the after-care staff is cultivated to help the supervisees tackle obstacles in their path to rehabilitation. Throughout the statutory supervision period, regular contacts are maintained between the after-care staff and their respective supervisees to ensure that the supervisees settle well into the community and comply with the conditions of the supervision orders. Any breach of the supervision conditions may result in the supervisee being recalled for a further period of training, treatment or imprisonment. Under the Release Under Supervision and Pre-release Employment Schemes, successful applicants may be discharged directly from prison for after-care supervision or permitted to go out to work and live in a hostel with after-care services. Both schemes aim at enabling suitable, eligible and motivated prisoners to serve their sentences in an open environment with supervision.

The Post-release Supervision of Prisoners Scheme provides after-care supervision for certain categories of adult prisoners to facilitate their rehabilitation and reintegration into society. Prisoners breaching the supervision conditions may be recalled to serve the balance of their unexpired supervision period. Under the Conditional Release Scheme, prisoners with indeterminate sentences may, before the Long-term Prison Sentences Review Board makes recommendations as to whether their indeterminate sentences should be converted to determinate ones, be conditionally released under supervision for a specific period to test their determination and ability to lead a law-abiding life. Prisoners whose indeterminate sentences have been converted to determinate ones, may also be ordered by the board to be placed under post-release supervision under the Supervision After Release Scheme.

Success rates of the after-care programmes are measured by the percentage of supervisees completing supervision without reconviction and as the case may be, remaining drug-free. In 2001, the success rates were 95 per cent for detention centre inmates; 65 per cent for male training centre inmates; 74 per cent for female training centre inmates; 87 per cent for young male prisoners; 100 per cent for young female prisoners; 68 per cent for male drug addiction treatment centre inmates; 80 per cent for female drug addiction treatment centre inmates; 100 per cent for the Release

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