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Public Order

Vocational Training

To help young offenders reintegrate into society as law-abiding citizens, the CSD provides half- day vocational training programmes for those under 21 years of age to enable them to acquire job skills, obtain accreditation and develop work habits. The CSD provides eligible adult. offenders' wishing to participate in the programmes with pre-release vocational courses. Full- time and part-time courses are provided at the Pik Uk Prison and the Hei Ling Chau, Pak Sha Wan, Tai Lam, Tong Fuk and Tung Tau Correctional Institutions. Part-time courses are also held at six other institutions.

Correctional Services Industries

The CSD provides work for adult offenders as required by law to keep them gainfully employed and to help them develop good working habits, a sense of responsibility and self-confidence. Through the training received at work, they can also acquire work skills to facilitate their reintegration into society.

In 2014, a daily average of about 4,452 persons 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 plus other domestic work and services provided by the CSD was $460.6 million in 2014.

Welfare and Counselling Services

Rehabilitation Officers look after the welfare of persons in custody, and help them deal with personal problems 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 is an alternative to imprisonment. Young addicts aged between 14 and 20 are accommodated separately from the adults, but the length of treatment is the same and includes two to 12 months in-centre treatment, followed by one-year statutory supervision.

Medical Services

Most of the correctional facilities have 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 Department of Health.

1 'Eligible adult offender' means an adult offender who is allowed to be employed or work and is not subject to any condition of stay in

Hong Kong after discharge.

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