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Drug Addiction Treatment
The CSD runs a compulsory treatment programme for convicted drug addicts which provides the courts with an alternative to imprisonment. Male inmates are accommodated at Hei Ling Chau Addiction Treatment Centre and Lai Sun Correctional Institution, and females at the Hei Ling Chau Addiction Treatment Centre (Annex). Adult and young inmates are accommodated separately. An inmate undergoes in-centre treatment from two to 12 months, followed by one year's statutory after-care supervision. The programme is based on therapeutic treatment, discipline, work programmes, outdoor physical activities and comprehensive after- care service.
Medical Services
All institutions have their own hospitals providing basic medical treatment, health and dental care to inmates. Those requiring specialist treatment are either referred to visiting specialists or to specialist clinics in public hospitals.
Antenatal and postnatal care is provided in institutions for female inmates, but babies are normally delivered in public hospitals. Siu Lam Psychiatric Centre treats prisoners with mental health problems and offers psychiatric consultations and assessments for inmates on referral from other institutions and the courts.
Psychological Services
Psychological services are provided to inmates to enhance their psychological well-being and to correct behaviour that leads them to reoffend. Clinical psychologists and trained officers provide special treatment programmes for inmates such as sex offenders, violent offenders, inmates with addiction problems and young offenders. They also provide assessment reports to the courts, review boards and institutional management to assist decision-making on the management and rehabilitation of offenders. To improve management and rehabilitative services for offenders, an empirically based protocol and clinical measures for assessing the custodial and reoffending risks of inmates as well as their rehabilitative needs were introduced in 2005.
After-care Services
After-care supervision is provided to people discharged from training, rehabilitation, detention and drug addiction treatment centres, discharged young prisoners subject to supervision under the Criminal Procedures Ordinance and prisoners discharged under the Release Under Supervision, Pre-release Employment and Post-release Supervision Schemes, as well as prisoners discharged under a conditional release order or post-release supervision order. The aim of after-care services is to facilitate supervisees' rehabilitation and reintegration into society. Rapport among the supervisees, their families and the after-care staff is cultivated to help the supervisees tackle obstacles in their path to rehabilitation.
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
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