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Public Order

Vocational Training

The CSD helps offenders reintegrate into society as law-abiding citizens. Those under 21 may undergo half-day vocational training programmes to acquire job skills, obtain accreditation and develop work habits, while eligible adult offenders' can take pre-release vocational courses. Eighteen correctional facilities offered full-time and part-time courses in 2017.

Correctional Services Industries

The department 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 acquire work skills to facilitate their reintegration into society.

In 2017, a daily average of 4,529 persons in custody were engaged in productive work, providing government departments and subvented bodies with goods and services that covered office furniture, uniforms, leather products, hospital linen, filter masks, fibreglass products, 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 $454,1 million.

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

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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