346 Public Order
In 2011, a daily average of about 5 099 offenders were engaged in productive work, providing government departments and subvented bodies with a wide range of goods and services. These include office furniture, uniforms, leather products, hospital linen, filter masks, fibreglass litter containers, traffic signs, precast concrete products and metal products, laundry services for hospitals and clinics, book binding for public libraries, printing work, file jackets and envelopes. The market value of these goods and services, together with other domestic work and services provided for the CSD, was $422 million in 2011.
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 persons in custody 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 offenders are accommodated at Hei Ling Chau Addiction Treatment Centre and Lai Sun Correctional Institution, whereas females are accommodated at Nei Kwu Correctional 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 persons in custody with primary medical treatment, health care and dental services. Persons in custody who need specialist treatment are referred to visiting specialists or specialist outpatient clinics. of the Hospital Authority or the DH. Pregnant persons in custody 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
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