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The Singapore Prison Service ( 新加坡监狱署) or SPS is a government agency of the Government of Singapore under the purview of the Ministry of Home Affairs. The service runs 14 prisons and drug rehabilitation centres in Singapore. Its responsibilities encompass the safe custody, rehabilitation and aftercare of offenders, and preventive ...
Nagaenthran a/l K. Dharmalingam (13 September 1988 – 27 April 2022) was a Malaysian drug trafficker who was convicted of trafficking 42.72 grams of heroin in April 2009 upon entering Singapore from Malaysia at Woodlands Checkpoint with a bundle of heroin strapped to his thigh. Nagaenthran confessed to committing the crime, but gave statements ...
Pannir, together with 12 other death row inmates, launched a civil litigation against the Singapore Prison Service for releasing private letters to the Attorney-General's Chambers without the consent of the inmates who filed the motion. While the legal motion was previously dismissed, it was scheduled for hearing in February 2024.
The Singapore Prisons Emergency Action Response ( SPEAR) is a department within the Singapore Prison Service (SPS). SPEAR is a highly trained elite force that is deployed in various high risk special operations [1] [2] and prepared to quell any riots or fights within the prisons. It assists SPS officers in handling non-compliant inmates ...
Caning is a widely used form of corporal punishment in Singapore. It can be divided into several contexts: judicial, prison, reformatory, military, school and domestic. These practices of caning as punishment were introduced during the period of British colonial rule in Singapore. [1]
Van Tuong Nguyen ( Vietnamese: Nguyễn Tường Vân, listen ⓘ; 17 August 1980 – 2 December 2005), baptised Caleb, [1] was an Australian from Melbourne, Victoria convicted of drug trafficking in Singapore. A Vietnamese Australian, he was also addressed as Nguyen Tuong-van (阮祥雲) in the Singaporean media, his name in Vietnamese custom ...
There are 169 inmates who are currently COVID-19 positive across all of Singapore's prison facilities as of Wednesday (10 November).
Early life. Mathavakannan Kalimuthu was born in Singapore on 10 May 1978. He was the only son of his family and had one younger sister, who is two years younger. He studied in the Institute of Technical Education (ITE) in 1993 before he dropped out of school to support his parents, who both suffered from poor health, and sister, who was a student.