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A VCD of the award-winning TV docu-drama, The Road Back II, will be distributed to visitors to the Hong Kong Correctional Services Museum free of charge starting on June 1 (Sunday).
The well-received 10-episode series, jointly produced by the Correctional Services Department and Radio Television Hong Kong (RTHK), was broadcast from October to December 2002.
It won second place in the 2002 Appreciation Index Survey: Best Television Programmes Awards and the Gold Award in the Entertainment Programmes category.
Following the enthusiastic public response to the first series of The Road Back in 2000, the department and RTHK produced a second series last year to encourage public support for rehabilitated offenders' reintegration into society.
The drama, which was based on real stories, portrayed how a group of offenders and inmates underwent rehabilitation. These real characters also appeared in the drama to share their experiences.
The department has produced 10,000 copies of the VCD in Cantonese with Chinese subtitles. Apart from being distributed to schools, youth organisations and community groups to help prevent juvenile delinquency, 2,000 copies of the VCD are available for public collection at the Hong Kong Correctional Services Museum on a first-come-first-served basis.
Enquiries on rehabilitation of offenders can be made to the Rehabilitation Division of the department at 2582 2087 during office hours.
The museum, at 45 Tung Tau Wan Road, Stanley, is open to the public from 10am to 5pm from Tuesday to Sunday and closed on Mondays and public holidays.
The public can learn more about the evolution of penal administration in Hong Kong over the past 160 years by visiting the museum, which opened in November last year. Admission is free.
The museum has a collection of more than 600 exhibits, including historical documents and photographs. There are also mock gallows and two mock cells.
The museum is accessible by bus route numbers 6, 6X, 63, 73, 260 and 973 as well as green minibus route numbers 40 and 52.
End/Thursday, May 29, 2003
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