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services. These included office furniture, uniforms, leather products, hospital linen, filter masks, fibreglass litter containers, traffic signs, precast concrete products, metal products, laundry services, book binding, printing work, file jackets and envelopes. The market value of these goods and services was $448.7 million in 2016.

Welfare and Counselling

Rehabilitation officers look after the welfare of persons in custody and help them deal with personal problems arising from their detention or imprisonment. The officers provide individual and group counselling and run rehabilitation programmes such as pre-release reintegration orientation courses, make arrangements for the persons in custody to meet their family members and supply them with information on community resources.

Drug Addiction Treatment

Convicted drug addicts may undergo a compulsory treatment programme as an alternative to imprisonment. Addicts aged between 14 and 20 are accommodated separately from the adults. The length of treatment is the same, ranging from two to 12 months of in-centre treatment followed by one year of statutory supervision.

Health Care

All correctional institutions have on-site hospitals staffed by qualified personnel to provide basic health care. Persons in custody who need specialist treatment are referred to visiting specialists or public hospitals.

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, drug addicts in drug addiction treatment centres, and young persons and women in custody. They 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 aims to help supervisees reintegrate into society. It 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. Any breach of the supervision conditions may result in recall for a further period of training, treatment or imprisonment. At the end of 2016, 1,806 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

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