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Public Order

Health Care

In all correctional institutions, there are on-site hospitals staffed by qualified personnel to provide basic healthcare services. Persons in custody who need specialist treatment are referred to visiting specialists or public hospitals for follow-up.

Psychological Services

Psychological services seek to improve the psychological well-being of persons in custody 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, and young persons and women in custody. They also submit assessment reports to the courts, review boards and institutional management on request. The department assesses the person's risk of reoffending upon discharge using an empirically based protocol and clinical

measures.

Statutory Supervision

Statutory supervision is provided to young persons discharged from custody, people discharged from training, rehabilitation, detention and drug addiction treatment centres, those discharged under the Release Under Supervision, Pre-release Employment and Post-release Supervision schemes, and those discharged under a conditional release order or post-release supervision order. The aim of statutory supervision is to help the supervisees reintegrate into society. Any breach of the supervision conditions may result in recall for a further period of training, treatment or imprisonment. At the end of 2015, 1,991 people were under active statutory supervision.

Community Support

Community acceptance and support are paramount to an offender's rehabilitation and reintegration into society. The Committee on 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 and representatives of non-governmental organisations and government departments. The department also organises publicity activities to appeal for public support for offender rehabilitation.

Community Education

The department reaches out mainly to secondary students with its Rehabilitation Pioneer Project, launched in September 2008. It conducts a series of community education programmes, such as a Creation and Rehabilitation drama and music performance and a Reflective Path role-playing exercise, to disseminate to the youth the messages of leading a law- abiding and drug-free life and of supporting offender rehabilitation.

Information Technology and Management

The department continues to enhance the quality and efficiency of prison management and offender rehabilitation services through appropriate use of new technologies.

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