The Correctional Services Bureau (Chinese: 懲教管理局, Portuguese: Direcção dos Serviços Correccionais, DSC)[1] is the agency responsible for maintaining inmates in Macau.

[2] The facility consists of a series or connected buildings surrounded by a white wall with barbed wire.

There is also a juvenile detention facility in Macau, the Youth Correctional Institution (少年感化院; siu3 nin4 gam2 faa3 jyun2; Shàonián Gǎnhuàyuàn; Instituto de Menores), also in Coloane, with sections for boys and girls.

[11] Due to Coloane Prison being at almost full capacity, a new facility is under construction in Ka Ho.

That year, Alison Dakota Gee and Paulo Azevedo of Asiaweek (via CNN) stated that the facility "is not the worst place to wind up behind bars.