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Welfare and Counselling Services
Rehabilitation Officers look after the welfare of persons detained in custody, and help them deal with personal problems and difficulties arising from their detention or imprisonment. They conduct individual and group counselling sessions and assist in running various rehabilitation programmes and services such as pre- release reintegration orientation courses, making arrangements for the prisoners to meet their family members and supplying them with information on community
resources.
Drug Addiction Treatment
The CSD runs a compulsory treatment programme for convicted drug addicts, which provides the courts with an alternative to imprisonment. Male and female offenders are accommodated at Hei Ling Chau Addiction Treatment Centre and its Annex respectively. Young addicts aged between 14 and 20 are accommodated separately from the adults. The programme includes two to 12 months' in-centre treatment, followed by one-year statutory supervision.
Medical Services
Every institution has a hospital to provide inmates with primary medical treatment, healthcare and dental services. Inmates who need specialist treatment are referred to visiting specialists or specialist outpatient clinics of Hospital Authority or Department of Health. Pregnant prisoners are referred to public hospitals for related ante-natal care services and delivery.
Psychological Services
Psychological services are provided to offenders to improve their psychological well-being and to change their offending behaviour. Clinical psychologists and trained officers provide special treatment programmes for sex offenders, violent offenders, those with addiction problems, young offenders and offenders who are in need of psychological service/treatment.
They also provide assessment reports to the courts, review boards and institutional management on request. It has adopted an empirically-based protocol and clinical measures for assessing the offender's risk of re-offending upon discharge.
Supervision Services
Statutory supervision is provided to discharged young prisoners, people discharged from training, rehabilitation, detention and drug addiction treatment centres, and offenders discharged under the Release Under Supervision, Pre-release Employment and Post-release Supervision Schemes, as well as offenders discharged under a conditional release order or post-release supervision order. The aim of supervision services is to help ex-offenders reintegrate into society. Any breach of the supervision conditions may result in these ex-offenders being recalled for a further period of training, treatment or imprisonment.
In 2009, 2774 offenders were discharged under supervision. They, together with those discharged in previous years and who had yet to complete their
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