Number of Male and Female Prison Inmates with Children under Age of Seven and 18 Respectively

Ms He Ting Ru asked the Minister for Home Affairs of the number of male and female prison inmates respectively in 2020, how many have (i) children under the age of seven and (ii) children under the age of 18.

Mr K Shanmugam: As at 31 December 2020, there were 9,204 male inmates and 1,162 female inmates. 1 Based on our records, 2,224 male inmates and 508 female inmates had at least one child under the age of 18; while 869 male inmates and 227 female inmates had at least one child under the age of seven.

Note(s) to Question No(s) 7:

1 Figures are of local in-care inmates and those on Community Based Programmes, and exclude those in remand.