Hong Kong
Correctional Services Museum
A visit to the Hong Kong Correctional Services Museum in Stanley
affords an intriguing glimpse of prison life in Hong Kong over
the past 160 years. The museum showcases the evolution of the
Hong Kong penal system from one that originally focused on punishment
as a deterrent to the present system that promotes the rehabilitation
of prisoners.
The museum, inside the Correctional
Services' Staff Training Institute, features a mock gallows, two
imitation cells and stylised guard tower on top of the building.
Nine galleries feature some 600 artifacts and exhibits covering
the history and development of the prison system, punishment and
imprisonment, staff uniforms and insignia, Vietnamese boat people,
homemade weapons and more. There is a souvenir shop on the G/F
selling items like badges.
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