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Official capacity of adult prisons, penal institutions or correctional institutions

Data from Jan 2006 to Dec 2020Updated 6 months ago

SPS (Singapore Prison Service)

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Officialcapacityofadultprisonspenalinstitutionsorcorrectionalinstitutions.csv (15 rows, 199 B)

Year Year (YYYY)	Official Capacity Of Prisons Numeric
(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%
2006	13876
2007	12645
2008	12645
2009	15564
2010	15564
2011	16254
2012	16249
2013	16249
2014	16347
2015	16347

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Title	Column name	Data type	Unit of measure	Description
Year	year	Year (YYYY)	-	-
Official Capacity Of Prisons	official_capacity_of_prisons	Numeric	Number of Inmates	-

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Sample OpenAPI query

This code can be used to test a sample API query. It retrieves the data catalogue of this dataset. For a complete guide on query parameters and syntax, please refer to the API documentation. Try it out on your browser to see the response schema.

import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_e4a6dd4f67e75f5c66dac0ba6c57f736"
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). Official capacity of adult prisons, penal institutions or correctional institutions (2024) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved November 22, 2024 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_e4a6dd4f67e75f5c66dac0ba6c57f736/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)

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