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Parliament: Prisons to suspend all family visits from April 7 to May 4 amid Covid-19 outbreak

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SINGAPORE - From Tuesday (April 7) to May 4, the Singapore Prison Service will suspend all family visits, including both face-to-face visits and televisits, which allow families of inmates to chat with them via video conferencing.

Inmates will be allowed to keep in touch with their family members through local phone calls in lieu of such visits, Senior Parliamentary Secretary for Home Affairs Amrin Amin told Parliament on Monday. Overseas calls will not be allowed, he added.

Inmates can also continue to send letters to their families, including electronic letters, during the period of "circuit breaker" measures to curtail the spread of Covid-19.

Prison programmes involving external parties, such as work programmes and family programmes, will also be suspended during this period.

Essential services such as bakeries, kitchens and laundry services will continue to function.

There have been no cases of Covid-19 in Singapore's prisons thus far , Mr Amrin said.

He added that prisons here have taken additional precautionary measures to protect inmates as well as prison officers and staff from the virus.

All newly admitted inmates are housed separately from the general population and are monitored for 14 days, including through temperature screenings twice a day.

Since March 23, inmates who fulfil the Ministry of Health's case definition for Covid-19, or who have chest X-ray results that suggest respiratory infection, have been tested for Covid-19.

"Front-line prison officers are issued personal protective equipment, which includes disposable masks and gloves for use and interaction with all new admissions, and any suspected case of Covid-19 in the inmate population," said Mr Amrin.

"Prisons have also implemented compulsory temperature screening for all staff and visitors at all access points into prisons facilities."

Mr Amrin was responding to a supplementary question from Mr Louis Ng (Nee Soon GRC).

Mr Ng had also asked what plans the Ministry of Home Affairs has to tackle the transmission of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), hepatitis B and hepatitis C in prisons and whether the ministry could ensure all inmates are vaccinated for hepatitis B.

In response, Mr Amrin said there have been no known instances of inmates contracting HIV, hepatitis B and hepatitis C while in Singapore's prisons.

He also said prisons take reference from the Health Ministry's National Adult Immunisation Schedule on vaccination, under which vaccinations for hepatitis B are not mandatory.

Mr Amrin said officers and medical personnel conduct regular health talks for inmates to promote healthy lifestyles. This includes education on personal hygiene and not engaging in risky behaviour.

"MHA will continue to regularly review the healthcare approach in our prisons through its Medical Advisory Panel," he said.

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How Changi Prison is taking to video analytics and facial recognition in a big way

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Prison surveillance is going high-tech with smart systems that could help officers be more aware of inmates' behaviours as part of moves to transform operations.

This Avatar system uses prototype video analytics to detect fights in cells. (Photo: Amir Yusof)

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SINGAPORE: Family visits can be joyful moments for prisoners, or filled with tension. How a visit turns out, however, may not always be so obvious to the officers supervising the inmates.

That could change, as the Singapore Prison Service (SPS) is now exploring the use of video analytics to help its officers be more aware of inmates’ behaviours.

If the technology works accurately, the SPS envisions using it to improve the management of inmates throughout the Changi Prison Complex.

It would be the most comprehensive use of video analytics in the prison since the SPS set out in 2017 to transform its operations through technological initiatives.

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This comes as Singapore goes into facial recognition technology in a big way, with a project lined up to fit cameras and sensors on more than 100,000 lamp-posts, to help authorities “perform crowd analytics” and support anti-terror operations.

READ: 'Smart lamp posts' in Singapore won't shine light into people's lives

Read: ica to introduce multi-biometrics screening at checkpoints from april 2019.

In prison, the technology could play a similar analytics role, Deputy Superintendent of Prisons 2 (DSP 2) Neo Ming Feng disclosed to the programme Why It Matters in a web exclusive.

“With more data coming in through sensors, through biometrics, through closed-circuit television, we can fuse the data and analyse it, and assist our officers through a better ground situation awareness of what’s going on,” said the 32-year-old.

PICKING UP ABNORMAL BEHAVIOUR

For example, one of the things officers look out for is “the way inmates respond to how their families are doing”.

“Let’s say, after a visit and the inmates come back slightly depressed or looking unhappy, that’s when we can pick up signs of … the inmates behaving abnormally,” said DSP 2 Neo, the SPS’ assistant director of transformational projects.

“Our officers can intervene to understand what’s happening or what the inmate is going through, and that can better help inmates.”

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Video  analytics could help prison officers to better understand how inmates behave in general, for example in their cell or in the day room, which is the area right outside their cells.

“Once we know the normal behaviour of the inmate, when the inmate behaves abnormally, we could then pick up the difference,” explained DSP 2 Neo.

The information could alert officers that they “probably need to pay more attention to the inmate, to pre-empt incidents that could happen”.

The technology could also identify more accurately whom an inmate communicates with usually. “With that, we can learn more about the dynamics of the inmates’ interactions … (and) the dynamics of the whole prison,” said DSP 2 Neo.

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Deploying video analytics would also assist officers in the control centre in identifying whether any inmates are going to an area of the prison where they are not supposed to be.

The prison staff are “generally very supportive of this project”, as they understand how it will help them, added DSP 2 Neo.

Although the vision is clear, the SPS has not implemented this system just yet.

So far, Changi Prison has been doing trials on facial recognition to determine whether an automated system can replace the muster checks done manually by officers to account for inmates.

Using the technology, cameras in the cells capture the inmates’ facial images and verify them with the database. This allows the checks, which must be repeated a few times daily, to be done faster.

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DETECTING FIGHTS

Besides that, a human behaviour detection system called Avatar is being tested. It uses video analytics to detect abnormal activities – such as fights – in the cells and to alert the officers.

READ: Changi Prison raises tech bar with automated checks, surveillance system that detects fights

To do this, the system must be taught to recognise aggression, explained Mr Benjamin Lee, the assistant director of human performance at the Home Affairs Ministry’s Office of the Chief Science and Technology Officer.

“From a human perspective, we kind of understand what aggression is. So there’s motion … it’s chaotic, it has a high number of interaction points. So we try to translate that into what we think a computer should understand,” he said.

Avatar is being tested in one prison cell, and it was reported in June that it has detected actual fights.  But there have also been false positives.

“That’s one of the challenges that we see. So, for example, if an inmate’s doing jumping jacks in the cell, we see that being classified as … an act of aggression,” said Mr Lee.

“What we can do is to take all these false positives and feed them back to the system, and teach it to recognise that these aren’t real acts of aggression.”

Videos of fights are also fed into the system, and brawls are simulated, “to continually train the system to become more and more intelligent” and to test its accuracy.

“We’re still in the process of fine-tuning the algorithm,” added Mr Lee, who admitted that there are still times when the computer does not pick up acts of aggression.

When it is “accurate enough”, it will be put into full operation, said DSP 2 Neo, who highlighted that it will serve the SPS’ mission to ensure the “secure custody of the inmates” – besides rehabilitating them – “for a safer Singapore”.

Watch the Why It Matters episode on facial recognition technology here . And read about how China is powering up on facial recognition, from dispensing toilet paper to shaming jaywalkers .

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Changi Chapel and Museum

Learn more about the tenacity of the prisoners of war and civilians interned in Changi prison camp during World War II, with a trip to the Changi Chapel and Museum.

Visit Changi Chapel and Museum to learn about the courage and tenacity of the prisoners of war and civilians interned in Changi prison camp.

Explore our wartime past by learning about the Fall of Singapore and the infamous Changi Prison.

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It is hoped that the POWs, civilian prisoners and their families can find closure from the war here and the Changi Museum.

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Take the time to visit the other historical sites and attractions that surround the area such as the Changi Chapel, Changi Village and Changi Beach.

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Module 10: Social Psychology

Social norms and scripts, learning objectives.

  • Describe social roles, social norms, and scripts and how they influence behavior
  • Explain the process and the findings of Zimbardo’s Stanford prison experiment

Social Roles

One major social determinant of human behavior is our social roles. A social role is a pattern of behavior that is expected of a person in a given setting or group (Hare, 2003). Each one of us has several social roles. You may be, at the same time, a student, a parent, an aspiring teacher, a son or daughter, a spouse, and a lifeguard. How do these social roles influence your behavior? Social roles are defined by culturally shared knowledge. That is, nearly everyone in a given culture knows what behavior is expected of a person in a given role. For example, what is the social role for a student? If you look around a college classroom you will likely see students engaging in studious behavior, taking notes, listening to the professor, reading the textbook, and sitting quietly at their desks (Figure 1). Of course you may see students deviating from the expected studious behavior such as texting on their phones or using Facebook on their laptops, but in all cases, the students that you observe are attending class—a part of the social role of students.

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Figure 1. Being a student is just one of the many social roles you have. (credit: “University of Michigan MSIS”/Flickr)

Social roles, and our related behavior, can vary across different settings. How do you behave when you are engaging in the role of son or daughter and attending a family function? Now imagine how you behave when you are engaged in the role of employee at your workplace. It is very likely that your behavior will be different. Perhaps you are more relaxed and outgoing with your family, making jokes and doing silly things. But at your workplace you might speak more professionally, and although you may be friendly, you are also serious and focused on getting the work completed. These are examples of how our social roles influence and often dictate our behavior to the extent that identity and personality can vary with context (that is, in different social groups) (Malloy, Albright, Kenny, Agatstein & Winquist, 1997).

Social Norms

As discussed previously, social roles are defined by a culture’s shared knowledge of what is expected behavior of an individual in a specific role. This shared knowledge comes from social norms. A social norm is a group’s expectation of what is appropriate and acceptable behavior for its members—how they are supposed to behave and think (Deutsch & Gerard, 1955; Berkowitz, 2004). How are we expected to act? What are we expected to talk about? What are we expected to wear? In our discussion of social roles we noted that colleges have social norms for students’ behavior in the role of student and workplaces have social norms for employees’ behaviors in the role of employee. Social norms are everywhere including in families, gangs, and on social media outlets. What are some social norms on Facebook?

Connect the Concepts: Tweens, Teens, and Social Norms

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Figure 2. Young people struggle to become independent at the same time they are desperately trying to fit in with their peers. (credit: Monica Arellano-Ongpin)

My 11-year-old daughter, Jessica, recently told me she needed shorts and shirts for the summer, and that she wanted me to take her to a store at the mall that is popular with preteens and teens to buy them. I have noticed that many girls have clothes from that store, so I tried teasing her. I said, “All the shirts say ‘Aero’ on the front. If you are wearing a shirt like that and you have a substitute teacher, and the other girls are all wearing that type of shirt, won’t the substitute teacher think you are all named ‘Aero’?”

My daughter replied, in typical 11-year-old fashion, “Mom, you are not funny. Can we please go shopping?”

I tried a different tactic. I asked Jessica if having clothing from that particular store will make her popular. She replied, “No, it will not make me popular. It is what the popular kids wear. It will make me feel happier.” How can a label or name brand make someone feel happier? Think back to what you’ve learned about lifespan development. What is it about pre-teens and young teens that make them want to fit in (Figure 2)? Does this change over time? Think back to your high school experience, or look around your college campus. What is the main name brand clothing you see? What messages do we get from the media about how to fit in?

Zimbardo’s Stanford Prison Experiment

The famous Stanford prison experiment , conducted by social psychologist Philip Zimbardo and his colleagues at Stanford University, demonstrated the power of social roles, social norms, and scripts. In the summer of 1971, an advertisement was placed in a California newspaper asking for male volunteers to participate in a study about the psychological effects of prison life. More than 70 men volunteered, and these volunteers then underwent psychological testing to eliminate candidates who had underlying psychiatric issues, medical issues, or a history of crime or drug abuse. The pool of volunteers was whittled down to 24 healthy male college students. Each student was paid $15 per day and was randomly assigned to play the role of either a prisoner or a guard in the study. Based on what you have learned about research methods, why is it important that participants were randomly assigned?

A mock prison was constructed in the basement of the psychology building at Stanford. Participants assigned to play the role of prisoners were “arrested” at their homes by Palo Alto police officers, booked at a police station, and subsequently taken to the mock prison. The experiment was scheduled to run for several weeks. To the surprise of the researchers, both the “prisoners” and “guards” assumed their roles with zeal. In fact, on day 2, some of the prisoners revolted, and the guards quelled the rebellion by threatening the prisoners with night sticks. In a relatively short time, the guards came to harass the prisoners in an increasingly sadistic manner, through a complete lack of privacy, lack of basic comforts such as mattresses to sleep on, and through degrading chores and late-night counts.

The prisoners, in turn, began to show signs of severe anxiety and hopelessness—they began tolerating the guards’ abuse. Even the Stanford professor who designed the study and was the head researcher, Philip Zimbardo, found himself acting as if the prison was real and his role, as prison supervisor, was real as well. After only six days, the experiment had to be ended due to the participants’ deteriorating behavior. Zimbardo explained,

At this point it became clear that we had to end the study. We had created an overwhelmingly powerful situation—a situation in which prisoners were withdrawing and behaving in pathological ways, and in which some of the guards were behaving sadistically. Even the “good” guards felt helpless to intervene, and none of the guards quit while the study was in progress. Indeed, it should be noted that no guard ever came late for his shift, called in sick, left early, or demanded extra pay for overtime work. (Zimbardo, 2013)

The Stanford prison experiment demonstrated the power of social roles, norms, and scripts in affecting human behavior. The guards and prisoners enacted their social roles by engaging in behaviors appropriate to the roles: The guards gave orders and the prisoners followed orders. Social norms require guards to be authoritarian and prisoners to be submissive. When prisoners rebelled, they violated these social norms, which led to upheaval. The specific acts engaged by the guards and the prisoners derived from scripts. For example, guards degraded the prisoners by forcing them do push-ups and by removing all privacy. Prisoners rebelled by throwing pillows and trashing their cells. Some prisoners became so immersed in their roles that they exhibited symptoms of mental breakdown; however, according to Zimbardo, none of the participants suffered long term harm (Alexander, 2001).

The Stanford Prison Experiment has some parallels with the abuse of prisoners of war by U.S. Army troops and CIA personnel at the Abu Ghraib prison in 2003 and 2004. The offenses at Abu Ghraib were documented by photographs of the abuse, some taken by the abusers themselves (Figure 3).

A photograph shows a person standing on a box with arms held out. The person is covered in shawl-like attire and a full hood that covers the face completely.

Figure 3. Iraqi prisoners of war were abused by their American captors in Abu Ghraib prison, during the second Iraq war. (credit: United States Department of Defense)

Link to Learning

Visit this website to hear an NPR interview with Philip Zimbardo where he discusses the parallels between the Stanford prison experiment and the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. You can also learn more in this TED talk from Dr. Zimbardo.

To review these concepts on self-presentation and the Stanford prison experiment, watch this Crash Course video .

Think It Over

  • Try attending a religious service very different from your own and see how you feel and behave without knowing the appropriate script. Or, try attending an important, personal event that you have never attended before, such as a bar mitzvah (a coming-of-age ritual in Jewish culture), a quinceañera (in some Latin American cultures a party is given to a girl who is turning 15 years old), a wedding, a funeral, or a sporting event new to you, such as horse racing or bull riding. Observe and record your feelings and behaviors in this unfamiliar setting for which you lack the appropriate script. Do you silently observe the action, or do you ask another person for help interpreting the behaviors of people at the event? Describe in what ways your behavior would change if you were to attend a similar event in the future?
  • Name and describe at least three social roles you have adopted for yourself. Why did you adopt these roles? What are some roles that are expected of you, but that you try to resist?
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  1. How to Visit

    Step 2: Register your Visit (On Visit Day) Be Punctual for Registration You are required to arrive and get a queue number: 30 - 45 minutes before your scheduled face-to-face visit session; 15 - 30 minutes before your scheduled Tele-visit session; Get a queue number for your visit when you arrive at the Prison Link Centre.

  2. When can I Visit

    Face-to-face Visit: 20 minutes: Prison Link Centre Changi Prison Link Centre Tanah Merah ... We seek your understanding that all visitors with mobility issue should be accompanied for face-to-face visit so that immediate assistance can be rendered to you in case of emergency. Alternatively, we may offer you the option to televisit your loved ones.

  3. Where can I Visit

    990 Upper Changi Road North Singapore 506968: Prison Link Centre Tanah Merah (PLCTM) 10 Tanah Merah Besar Road ... Before you can book a visit at a satellite centre, you must first complete a visit at any of the five Prison Link Centres (PLC) for verification of your documents. Subsequently, you may book a visit through IPRIS or the Visit ...

  4. Visiting a Loved One in Prison or On Death Row in Singapore

    For face-to-face visits, the visit duration is 20 minutes; for tele-visits, the visit duration is 30 minutes. Family members can also refer to this schedule for face-to-face visit days, and plan their visits accordingly. Most inmates are allowed to be visited by a maximum of 3 visitors in a visit session.

  5. iPRIS- online visit and interview booking

    With effect from 15 February 2023, you will require Singpass two-factor authentication (2FA) for login to the iPRIS system which is used for visit and interview bookings. 2FA is part of our continuous effort to enhance data security to better protect your online identity and transactions. If you need assistance to sign up for Singpass 2FA ...

  6. No face-to-face & tele-visits at Changi Prison until further notice

    No face-to-face & tele-visits at Changi Prison until further notice after an inmate tests positive for Covid-19. MOH reported the case on May 15.

  7. Parliament: Prisons to suspend all family visits from April 7 to May 4

    SINGAPORE - From Tuesday (April 7) to May 4, the Singapore Prison Service will suspend all family visits, including both face-to-face visits and televisits, which allow families of inmates to chat ...

  8. In a first, 5 inmates jailed multiple times tell all from inside Changi

    WhatsApp Telegram Facebook ... which can be via teleconference and a face-to-face meeting. And she hardly missed a visit back then, he recalled. ... In the central kitchen for Changi Prison's ...

  9. Visit Request Application Form (Singpass Holder)

    This form is for you to submit a visit request for yourself, or on behalf of someone else. You can submit on behalf of someone else if you are a family member or relative of the inmate. Do note that on your first visit, you are still required to produce the original documents for verification of your relationship to inmate at our Prison Link Centre. Parents, step parents, siblings, step ...

  10. How Changi Prison is taking to video analytics and facial recognition

    File photo of a day room in Changi Prison. (Photo: Amir Yusof) Deploying video analytics would also assist officers in the control centre in identifying whether any inmates are going to an area of ...

  11. PDF Changi Prison Cell Door

    Changi Chapel and Museum The Changi Chapel and Museum tells the story of the prisoners of war and civilians interned in Changi prison camp during the Japanese Occupation. Managed by the National Museum of Singapore, the Changi Museum was revamped and reopened in May 2021. The revamped museum features new content and artefacts, including stories

  12. Make Visit or Interview Bookings

    The Main Card Holders and authorised visitors can also make visit bookings by calling our Visit Booking Hotline 1800-PRISONS ( 1800-774-7667) during operating hours: Mondays to Fridays: 8.45am - 5pm. Saturdays: 8am - 12.30pm. Closed on Sundays and Public Holidays. Families may go through challenging times when a loved one is incarcerated and ...

  13. Changi Chapel and Museum

    The Changi Chapel and Museum sheds light on this tumultuous era, and the events that occurred in Singapore from 1942 to 1945, during the Japanese Occupation. Opened in 15 February 2001—a date that coincides with the anniversary of Singapore's fall to the Imperial Japanese Army—the space pays respect to the prisoners of war (POW) and ...

  14. Changi Prison Complex

    Visit Us. Our Libraries ... Completed in 1936, Changi Prison (historically also referred to as "Changi Gaol/Jail") was the last prison built by the British colonial government. It is known for being an internment camp during the Second World War. ... 35. " Changi Gets a Face-Lift," Straits Times, 15 March 1955, 7. (From NewspaperSG) 36.

  15. Changi Prison Complex inmate on her 3rd jail term finds path to a

    A few weeks ago, I visited Changi Prison Complex for the first time. It was exactly what I'd seen from documentaries; the monolithic structures with tall barbed wire fences, the utilitarian grey ...

  16. Changi Chapel & Museum: WWII Museum With Recreated Prison Cell

    We witnessed the monumental Fall of Singapore during the Japanese Occupation, as well as the turning point when soldiers and civilians alike were marched to Changi Prison Camp. A closer look at this prison door from the 1930s. Tip: Face the mirror at the side so it looks like the whole series of doors, giving you the illusion of a prison corridor.

  17. Documents

    Documents submitted during face-to-face visit sessions will be processed and returned on the same day. Documents submitted during tele-visit sessions or non-visit days will require a processing time of minimally five working days. Letter of Incarceration. A Letter of Incarceration (LOI) is a letter indicating that a person is incarcerated.

  18. Membership and Event Guidelines

    Rental Fees. The use of the Community Space is free of charge to all members. A certificate of insurance valid through the date of your meeting or event is required to use the space. Beyond the use of the physical space and the provided amenities, any additional event costs will be at an organization's own expense.

  19. Discovering Dickens

    A man with a bloated face opened the strong wicket… A wicket is a small gate or ... Were Cupid to visit Lombard Street, London, he would find (according to a 19th-century guidebook) the following: ... The Abbey is the large dark building visible under the "Tribunal" label; the Prison of the Abbaye is represented by the dark square at the ...

  20. Social Norms and Scripts

    Social norms require guards to be authoritarian and prisoners to be submissive. When prisoners rebelled, they violated these social norms, which led to upheaval. The specific acts engaged by the guards and the prisoners derived from scripts. For example, guards degraded the prisoners by forcing them do push-ups and by removing all privacy.

  21. Who can Visit

    1. For Family Members and Relatives. Please submit Documentary proof (e.g., Marriage Certificate, Birth Certificate) of your relationship with the inmate for your online visit application here. The inmate's Visit Card Holder (if any) and you, will be notified on the outcome of the visit application via SMS at your declared mobile phone ...

  22. EXCERPT: ALWAYS RUNNING by Luis J. Rodriguez

    JUNE 12, 2012--- Luis J. Rodríguez' ALWAYS RUNNING and three poetry books are now available as Ebooks from Open Road Integrated Media.The three collections of poetry are THE CONCRETE RIVER, TROCHEMOCHE, and MY NATURE IS HUNGER. The ebooks are for sale on Amazon.com, Apple iBookstore, Barnesandnoble.com, Google eBookstore/IndieBound, Kobo Books, Sony Reader Store, and OverDrive.

  23. Singapore Prison Service (SPS)

    The Yellow Ribbon Project (YRP) is a national public engagement campaign aimed at changing society's mindset in giving ex-offenders a second chance in life.