Reintegration Service for Adult Offenders

Unit
Department of Social Reintegration –Reintegration Unit

Target group
Offenders under non-custodial measures and their families, measures include: Parole, Probation, Judicial Restoration, Community Work Order, Suspension of Legal Proceeding and etc.

Service Contents
1. Assist parolees to reintegrate into society;
2. Provide supervision for probationers;
3. Supervise offenders to accomplish Community Work Orders;
4. Provide supports for released prisoners and offenders involved in the judicial system;
5. Prepare pre-trial social background reports.

Highlights of Adult Offender Service in 2022

• Enhance Patriotism Program
  Loving the motherland and loving Macao is the core value of the whole community in Macao. This year, we launch the “Enhance Patriotism Program”, which consist a series of patriotic education such as seminars and activities for our offenders and youths. Through micro films, seminars, activities and site visits, we aim to enhance the sense of the adult and juvenile offenders’ national identity with our country, and build up their love for motherland and abiding the law. The program includes four chapters: “Loving the Motherland”, “Love our country, Abide the Law”, “Love Macao” and “National Development Workshop”.
   


• Cross-regional Reintegration Service in Greater Bay Area
  In order to further improve the rehabilitation service in Macao and provide more support for rehabilitated persons, the Social Welfare Bureau cooperates with the relevant agencies from Hong Kong and Guangdong Province to provide Cross-regional Reintegration Service in Greater Bay Area for Macao residents serving their sentences in Hong Kong and Guangdong Province, so that they can reintegrate to the society smoothly once when they are released and return to their place of origin, in which will be beneficial for reoffending prevention.
  Program includes：Macao Resident Support Program (Guangdong), Macao Resident Support Program (Hong Kong).​
   

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• Career Development Programs
  Employment is an important prerequisite for rehabilitated offenders to reintegrate into society. The Social Welfare Bureau (IAS) is committed to expanding and improving the employment support services for ex-offenders and ensuring their successful employment. The career development programs include the Supportive Employer Network, Employment Placement Plan for Pre-release Prisoners, and Employment Placement Plan for Housed Juveniles.
   


• Virtual Job Hunting Program
  To help pre-release prisoners acquire information on job opportunities more conveniently, the IAS has launched the Virtual Job Hunting Program featuring video introductions of workplaces. By showing the actual work environments and duties of various posts, it helps pre-release prisoners choose their preferred jobs more easily and effectively.
   


• Correctional Courses for Rehabilitated Offenders
  Systematic correctional courses and activities are available according to the needs of the rehabilitated persons and the types of crimes committed. Courses including: personal growth, legal education, civic education, treatment courses, skills training, and participation in social services. These aim to raise offenders’ awareness of caring for the community and law abiding, establishing a positive lifestyle.
   


• Family Beyond the Wall Project
  A proactive family project, collaborating with Correction Services Bureau and YMCA, we provide family support for offenders when they are sentenced in the prison or Youth Correction Institution within Macao, Guangdong Province and Hong Kong. We aim to help those family members (Macao residents) to resolve problems in advance which benefit a better family reintegration for offenders.
   

  Application Form



• Statistics

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  更生個案數據 (2022年1至9月) Casos de reabilitados (Entre Janeiro e Setembrode 2022) Intake Cases for Adult Offenders (From January toSeptember2022)
  	男 Male Masculino	女 Female Feminino	總數 Total Total
  假釋 Liberdade Condicional Parole	68	15	83
  緩刑附隨考驗制度 Suspensão com regime de prova Probation	73	11	84
  緩刑戒毒 Suspensão da execução da pena de prisão com a condição de tratamento de desintoxicação Probation(Subject to Drug Treatment Program)	86	24	110
  考驗性釋放 Liberdade Experimental Release on Supervision	3	0	3
  非居民案 Não residente Non-resident Case	24	3	27
  司法恢復 Reabilitação Judicial Judicial Restoration	17	7	24
  請求裁判之不轉錄 Não Transcrição das Decisões Criminal Reacord Exemption	15	3	18
  社會報告 Relatório Social Social Background Report	55	10	65
  收容之暫緩執行 Suspensão da execução do Internamento Internment Suspension	4	0	4
  以勞動代替罰金 Substituição da multa por dias de trabalho Community Work Order	4	2	6
  訴訟程序之暫時中止 Suspensão Provisório do Processo Discontinuance of Legal Proceeding	1	0	1
  家暴施暴者 Violência doméstica Assaulter of Domestic Violence	12	3	15
  自願求助 Voluntário Voluntary Case	52	8	60
  窗外有家 Family Beyond the wall Familia fora da Prisão	86	13	99
  大灣區跨域更生個案 Casos transfronteiriços de reabilitação na Grande Baía Cross-regional Reintegration Case in Greater Bay Area	1	0	1
  合共跟進個案Total : 600