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Official capacity of adult prisons, penal institutions or correctional institutions

Data from Jan 2006 to Dec 2020

Last updated: 06 Jun 2024, 15:05 SGT

SPS (Singapore Prison Service)

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 20, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_e4a6dd4f67e75f5c66dac0ba6c57f736/view

About this dataset

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feedback@data.gov.sg

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)

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Official capacity of adult prisons, penal institutions or correctional institutions

Data from Jan 2006 to Dec 2020

Last updated: 06 Jun 2024, 15:05 SGT

SPS (Singapore Prison Service)

Official capacity of adult prisons, penal institutions or correctional institutions

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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

Column legend

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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