In view of the development of the COVID-19 pandemic, the SAR Government has decided to suspend public departments’ services and exempt public servants from work during 5 to 7 October to reduce the risk of the infections spreading. Therefore, the Correctional Services Bureau will suspend all non-urgent services during the abovementioned period. Details as follows:

1.  Coloane Prison suspends visits to inmates, meetings with social workers, and the processing of the applications for the permit for visiting an inmate, a video visit to an inmate, an appointment with a prison social worker, and the certificate of imprisonment;
2.  The Youth Correctional Institution suspends all external services, including visits to juvenile delinquents, meeting with social workers, and the processing of the applications for the permit for visiting a juvenile delinquent, a video visit to a juvenile delinquent, and the certificate of residence at Youth Correctional Institution;
3.  The Correctional Services Bureau Service and Information Centre – situated at “China Plaza”, 8 andar A – suspends all external services.

Members of the public wishing to apply for the permit for visiting an inmate, a video visit to an inmate, an appointment with a prison social worker and the certificate of imprisonment can lodge the application online by logging into http://www.dsc.gov.mo/siteen/web_opinion.aspx.