PENAL INSTITUTIONS

PENAL INSTITUTIONS

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(Profile of inmate population): **

2.

Ms Sylvia Lim asked the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Home Affairs if he can provide a comparison of the profile of the current inmate population in our penal institutions including juvenile homes and the profile of the general population, distributed by (i) household income (ii) highest education qualification obtained (iii) gender; and (iv) ethnic group.

Mr Wong Kan Seng: The Prisons Department (PD) maintains statistics to support its rehabilitation regime. Of the four categories of information requested, PD is unable to share statistics regarding income levels and ethnic groups.

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The profile of the population by gender and education in the drug rehabilitation centres, penal institutions, and juvenile homes as of June 2007 are set out in the tables below:

Table 1 - Education: |

General Population

(as of June 06)

|

DRC Population

(as of June 2007)

|

Penal Institution Population

(as of June 2007)

|

Juvenile Homes Population

(as of June 2007)

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Level of Education/Type of Education Data

|

Highest Education Qualification for Non-Students aged 15 yrs or above

|

Declared Education at Admission

|

Declared Education at Admission

|

Education Attained at Admission

Below Secondary

|

39%

|

39.4%

|

40.9%

|

59%

Secondary

|

22%

|

51.5%

|

47.7%

|

39%

Upper Secondary (ie, ITE or 'A' Levels)

|

11%

|

7.7%

|

10.2%

|

1%

Polytechnic

|

9%

|

0.2%

|

0.2%

|

-

University

|

19%

|

0.3%

|

0.7%

|

-

Data Not Available

|

-

|

0.9%

|

0.2%

|

1%

Table 2 - Gender: Gender

|

General Population

(as of June 2006)

|

DRC Population

(as of June 2007)

|

Penal Institution Population

(as of June 2007)

|

Juvenile Homes Population

(as of June 2007)

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Male

|

49.5%

|

81%

|

94%

|

60%

Female

|

50.5%

|

19%

|

6%

|

40%

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