Human rights activists will discuss an overhaul of Hong Kong's overcrowded and understaffed jails with security chief Peter Lai Hing-ling today.
The Secretary for Security will give his views on a 1997 report compiled by Human Rights Watch, Human Rights Monitor and Britain's former prisons inspector, Sir Stephen Tumim.
The report is the result of visits to 12 Correctional Services Department (CSD) institutions last April - including Vietnamese detention centres - which found overcrowded and understaffed jails.
Its main recommendation - that independent checks be carried out - has already been snubbed by the Government.
The report dubbed inspection visits by Justices of the Peace (JPs) ineffective, and called for an independent prisons inspector, similar to the system in Britain.
The Government said there was already a prison inspection system, conducted internally by the CSD and externally by JPs.