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Institution. 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, health care and dental services. Inmates who need specialist treatment are referred to visiting specialists or specialist outpatient clinics of the Hospital Authority or the 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, offenders with drug 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. The CSD 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 2010, 2455 offenders were discharged under supervision. They, together with those discharged in previous years and who had yet to complete their supervision period, amounted to 2 652 people under the CSD's supervision at the end of the year. During the year, 1463 people were recalled for breach of supervision conditions.

Community Support

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Community acceptance and support are of paramount importance to offender's rehabilitation and reintegration into society. The Committee Community Support for Rehabilitated Offenders is a non-statutory advisory body appointed by the Commissioner of Correctional Services to advise on rehabilitation programmes as well as strategies on reintegration and publicity. It comprises community leaders and professionals from various sectors of society and representatives of non-governmental organisations and government departments. The CSD also organises a variety of publicity activities to appeal for public support for rehabilitated offenders.