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Inmate to Prison Staff Ratio

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Inmate to Prison Staff Ratio

Data from Jan 2006 to Dec 2018

Last updated: 06 Jun 2024, 14:46 SGT

SPS (Singapore Prison Service)

Inmate to Institutional Staff Ratio. 'Institutional Staff' refers to full time (or equivalent) staff working in prisons/correctional institutions, including all categories or staff in prisons/correctional institutions, but excluding those working in headquarters and training colleges. Data is retrieved at end June yearly.

Inmate to Prison Staff Ratio

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InmatetoPrisonStaffRatio.csv (13 rows, 140 B)

Year Year (YYYY)	Inmate To Staff Ratio Numeric
(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%
2006	7.5
2007	6.7
2008	6.9
2009	7.2
2010	7.6
2011	7.5
2012	6.7
2013	6
2014	6.1
2015	5.9

Column legend

Title	Column name	Data type	Unit of measure	Description
Year	year	Year (YYYY)	-	-
Inmate To Staff Ratio	inmate_to_staff_ratio	Numeric	Number of Inmate to Number of Staff	-

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Sample OpenAPI query

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_888311df97e3d7d1402435bf4a57daf8"
url = "https://data.gov.sg/api/action/datastore_search?resource_id="  + dataset_id 
        
response = requests.get(url)
print(response.json())

Citation

This dataset can be reused and cited in research publications.

Singapore Prison Service. (2016). Inmate to Prison Staff Ratio (2024) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved July 5, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_888311df97e3d7d1402435bf4a57daf8/view

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Created on

29 Mar 2016

Licence

Free forever for personal or commercial use, under the Open Data Licence.

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SPS (Singapore Prison Service)