| Shek Pik Prison | |
| Pushpin Map: | Hong Kong |
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Location within Hong Kong |
| Location: | 47 Shek Pik Reservoir Road Lantau Island, Hong Kong |
| Coordinates: | 22.2244°N 113.8949°W |
| Status: | Operational |
| Classification: | Maximum security |
| Capacity: | 426 |
| Managed By: | Correctional Services Department |
| Director: | Tse Kwok-wai, Senior Superintendent |
| Showflag: | y |
| Order: | ts |
| T: | 石壁監獄 |
| S: | 石壁监狱 |
| J: | sek6 bik3 gaam1 juk6 |
| Y: | sehk bīk gāam yuhk |
| P: | Shí Bì Jiānyù |
Shek Pik Prison is a prison in Hong Kong, located at 47 Shek Pik Reservoir Road, Shek Pik, Lantau Island. It was built in 1984, and is managed by the Hong Kong Correctional Services. The prison is used to contain prisoners with medium to long sentences, as well as those sentenced to life imprisonment.[1] [2]
Shek Pik Prison officially opened in 1984 as a maximum-security facility with a capacity of 466 prisoners, helping to relieve Stanley Prison. It cost approximately HK$135 million to construct. The prison was built with high-tech security features including a 160-camera video surveillance system and infrared perimeter alarm, as well as a solar energy water heating system, the government's largest such solar energy system at that time.[3]
Located below the dam of the Shek Pik Reservoir, the prison remains a maximum-security institution. It now has an official capacity of 426.[4]
As a well fortified prison, Stanley Prison had advanced infrared perimeter alarm systems, wireless communication networks, and a closed-circuit television system worth over HK$4 million upon its initial operation, including over 160 surveillance cameras and 36 television monitors in the control room. [5] The prison also had the second-largest solar energy system in Hong Kong at the time, covering an area of 480 square meters, primarily to provide hot water for the prison.[6] Like other large correctional institutions, inmates are required to participate in "correctional industries" related work, and the prison has large-scale woodworking and laundry workshops, which are the largest among all correctional institutions in Hong Kong.[7]