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| | Plans to ease prison overcrowding in hand |
 | | Works on rebuilding Lo Wu Correctional Institution will start next year for completion in 2009 while improvements to other institutions, including the two on Chi Ma Wan, are being planned to ease overcrowding, Commissioner of Correctional Services Pang Sung-yuen says. |
 | | Noting the number of prisoners and inmates is expected to rise to 14,200 in 2024 from the existing 12,000, he said the capacity of Lo Wu Correctional Institution will be expanded to 1,400 places from the existing 200 places to cope with the growth. |
 | | For Chi Sun and Chi Ma Wan Correctional Institutions, the total number of places will be doubled to about 1,600. |
| www.news.gov.hk /en/category/lawandorder/060610/html/060610en08004.htm (365 words) |
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