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 | | In an important innovation, maximum security Shek Pik Prison has been offering open visits to prisoners whose sentences are longer than four years. |
 | | This pilot program, which only applies to visits from close family members, is strictly regulated: prisoners must make a special application to be considered for it; they must have gone twelve months without a disciplinary report; and they cannot have any past history of drug use in prison. |
 | | Letter from Wai Heung-wing, superintendent, Shek Pik Prison, to Law Yuk-kai, director, Hong Kong Human Rights Monitor, April 2, 1997 (stating that sixty-eight visits were recorded at Shek Pik from April 1996 through March 1997). |
| hrw.org /reports/1997/hngkng/Hongkong-05.htm (3551 words) |
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