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Inmate to Prison Staff Ratio

Number of staff employed in adult prisons, penal institutions or correctional institutions

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Number of staff employed in adult prisons, penal institutions or correctional institutions

Data from Jan 2006 to Dec 2018

Last updated: 06 Jun 2024, 14:50 SGT

SPS (Singapore Prison Service)

Number of staff employed in adult prisons, penal institutions or correctional institutions. Figures are retrieved as at end June yearly

Number of staff employed in adult prisons, penal institutions or correctional institutions

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Numberofstaffemployedinadultprisonspenalinstitutionsorcorrectionalinstitutions.csv (13 rows, 158 B)

Year
Year (YYYY)
Number Of Prison Staff
Numeric
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
20061805
20071792
20081777
20091806
20101785
20111760
20121959
20132237
20142169
20152159

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Title
Column name
Data type
Unit of measure
Description
YearyearYear (YYYY)--
Number Of Prison Staffnumber_of_prison_staffNumericNo. of Prison Staff-
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Sample OpenAPI query

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_9cae8b18253247283f9e89ef1c541225"
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). Number of staff employed in adult prisons, penal institutions or correctional institutions (2024) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved July 15, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_9cae8b18253247283f9e89ef1c541225/view

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Created on

29 Mar 2016

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

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SPS (Singapore Prison Service)