Hong Kong Correctional Services Museum
Hong Kong Correctional Services Museum is a museum in Hong Kong Correctional Services Department, located in the Southern District of Hong Kong Island, Stanley, near the Correctional Services Department Staff Training Institute, at the end of 2002 officially open. Hong Kong Correctional Services Museum is closed with effect from September 21, 2009 for renovation, reopened on January 29, 2010.
Hong Kong Correctional Services Museum storey two jobs, an area of about 480 square meters, with 10 exhibition rooms, two mock cells and a mock gallows, there are more than 600 pieces of exhibits in the museum, topped with a mock prison watchtowers. In addition, the museum houses galleries deputy, correctional and rehabilitation programs introduced, showing inmates in handicrafts and so on.
Hong Kong Correctional Services Museum from the main building, with shops and community centers composed of three buildings, six hundred pieces on display collectibles and lots of historical pictures. Hong Kong show different execution of punishment and prison management of historical periods. 2-storey main building, divided into nine exhibition rooms, exhibits the most chilling, it can be regarded as No. 1 exhibition room.
In this exhibition room, place one hundred years of British rule in Hong Kong Hong Kong police department used a variety of instruments of torture, including early flogging and rattan. Bamboo cane sub-station the size of two large for adults, little is for young people under the age of 16 "prisoners." Rattan thickness can be divided into two categories, diameter 1.5 cm thick, 1 cm have thin, thick or by using a thin, depends punished by "offenders" in severity. Every execution, playing up to 18 adult vine, vine play up to 12 young people. If the "prisoners" unable to cope collapsed, the doctor will observe the presence of "prisoners" whether it is appropriate to continue the execution, if the injury is too heavy, it is no longer being pumped tart, but not the end of the penalty, but the finish is not left to the continue the next penalty kick. Because of this thick vine beaten look too cruel, so the gauntlet in 1900 was abolished. The indoor exhibition also placed one kind of instrument of torture called the crankshaft, started by the 1900. It is a 120-pound winch, the "prisoner" illegal, constantly forced to be rotated capstan, until exhaustion. This penalty does mean that "prisoners" tired and weak regeneration "trouble." Of course, when you can stop, in accordance with the "judgment" were, as said above the gauntlet, as if the "offender" not as many times as "judgment" putting out tired fainted, but also lower the number of the remaining when putting out the first execution. According to records, there were "prisoners" was fined cranked crankshaft 12500 times. Interior also exhibited a hundred years of history, nine whip introduced by the British, its special features is the end of a whip is divided into nine equal playing time to play at 9, it was introduced, it can make this whip "prisoner" skin flesh split open.
No. 4 exhibition room, with two mock cells, is an imitation of a former World War II prison-domain multi Hong Kong Victoria Prison, which is only a bed, a table and a toilet. While the other analog currently in Hong Kong prisons use of modern independent cell, in addition to the bed with a mattress and automatic flush toilets, but also with hygiene kits, radios, pajamas and books and other debris.
The early years of the reign of the British Hong Kong, Hong Kong also had the death penalty, were hanged. Hong Kong only had two hanging utensils, but executed over 122 "death row." This exhibition scaffold can be said that the museum a "trump card" exhibits. Hong Kong's death penalty was formally abolished in 1993, but since 1966 has not carried out the death penalty, two gallows would have been placed in Stanley Prison until the museum to carry out, was able to "see a bright future."
The seventies and eighties, there are tens of thousands of Vietnamese refugees in Hong Kong was the influx of people because they no source of income, and finally embarked on the road of a lot of crime was sentenced to punishment. In the exhibition room No. 6, refugees, prisoners can be found in these "infinite creativity." They can dig plaid shoes collections cigarettes and playing cards, will peat powder into gas masks and plastic soda bottles plus (Vietnamese refugees in camps often collective riots, will cast tear gas when police went to Hong Kong to suppress), also uses soda cans stuffed with rice and broken bucket bottom for cutting instruments. These "creative" so that visitors eye-opener.
Scenic Area Address: Stanley Tung Tau Wan Road in Southern District, Hong Kong 45
Car lines: take the No. 260 bus to or 6,6X