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Collection: Inmate to Prison Staff Ratio

Dataset: 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

Data explorer

InmatetoPrisonStaffRatio.csv (13 rows, 140 B)

Year
Year (YYYY)
Inmate To Staff Ratio
Numeric
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
20067.5
20076.7
20086.9
20097.2
20107.6
20117.5
20126.7
20136
20146.1
20155.9

Column legend

Title
Column name
Data type
Unit of measure
Description
YearyearYear (YYYY)--
Inmate To Staff Ratioinmate_to_staff_ratioNumericNumber 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 October 26, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_888311df97e3d7d1402435bf4a57daf8/view

About this dataset

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Created on

29 Mar 2016

Licence

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

Agency

SPS (Singapore Prison Service)