SCORE's Residential Services Unit (RSU) facilitates the establishment of halfway houses, co-ordinates the Prisons Halfway House Scheme, and work towards enhancing the programmes and professionalism of halfway houses.
The Prisons Halfway House Scheme, which started in April 1995, allows amenable offenders of Drug Rehabilitation Centres and Prisons who are without strong family support to spend their last stage of their detention at the halfway houses. Currently, there are 10 halfway houses participating in the Scheme and their programme comprises of counseling, work therapy and moral/religious education.
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