Programmes to help prisoner's children and families

An inmate giving her daughter a kiss during an open visit on Dec 14, 2019. PHOTO: ST FILE
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SINGAPORE - About 1,500 male and female inmates are also parents with children under the age of 18.

The number - 1,541 inmates to be precise - is based on the records kept of visits by the inmates' children as at Dec 31 last year.

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