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The penal system of Hong Kong, with its colonial tradition, is responsible for carrying out criminal penalties and the supervision and rehabilitation of former prisoners. Hong Kong's prisons meet basic international criteria and attract less criticism than those in mainland China .
As of 2018 there was a daily average of 8,310 prisoners in the Hong Kong prison system. The prisons had an occupancy rate of 81.6 per cent, while training, detention, rehabilitation, and drug addiction treatment centres had an occupancy rate of 30.8 per cent. [1]
The Crimes Ordinance , last amended in 1972, is a law of Hong Kong relating to certain consolidated penal enactments. Like Macau, penal and criminal law in Hong Kong is different from what is applied in China.
Prisons in Hong Kong comprise correctional facilities in Hong Kong, a city and special administrative region of China. They are managed by the Correctional Services Department . Facilities have different purposes, including training centres, [ 1 ] detention centres, rehabilitation centres, and drug addiction treatment centres.
During a criminal proceeding, many steps and rules are involved. Each of the steps must be finished and followed in the correct order and the right time. First things first, in order for the Secretary for Justice to institute a criminal proceeding, the Secretary must first lawfully collect evidence and arrest the accused person. Then, the ...
Following the common law system introduced into Hong Kong when it became a Crown colony, Hong Kong's criminal procedural law and the underlying principles are very similar to the one in the UK. Like other common law jurisdictions, Hong Kong follows the principle of presumption of innocence. This principle penetrates the whole system of Hong ...
More than 40 of Hong Kong’s best known pro-democracy figures have been sentenced to prison terms of up to 10 years on subversion charges, in the biggest single blow to the city’s already ...
Today it is housed in a two-storey building next to the parade ground of the Staff Training Institute. It has an area of 480 square metres (5,200 sq ft) [1] with a collection of over 600 artifacts representing some 170 years of Hong Kong's criminal and rehabilitative past starting in the Qing dynasty (1644–1911) and extending through the colonial period, when piracy was punishable by death.