Visit Items
Reading Materials
Singapore Prison Service (SPS) provides reading materials and resources to all inmates. Inmates may also wish to borrow books from the prison library. Visitors are allowed to bring a maximum of three reading materials per visit. For remand inmates, the three reading materials are allowed to be brought once a week. All materials received will be screened.
Visitors may drop off the reading materials at the following visit centres:
- All Prison Link Centres
- Lakeside Family Centre
- Industrial & Services Co-operative Society Ltd (ISCOS)
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Guidelines on reading materials brought through visit |
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Number of readings materials permitted |
Specifications of reading materials |
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All categories (except remanded inmates) |
Up to three items per visit |
Not more than 36cm x 28 cm per item. Not more than 8cm in thickness per item. Not more than 1.5kg per item. Not more than 2kg per religious book.
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Remanded inmates |
Up to three items per week
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Smuggling contrabands into prison is an offence punishable under Section 66 of the Prison Act (Chapter 247) |
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Food Items
Pre-approved snack packs can be purchased at any of the five Prison Link Centres via NETS Payment. Visitors are allowed to purchase these snack packs for the following categories of inmates during each visit:
- Remand inmates (allowed to receive one snack pack through visits weekly)
- Inmates undergoing the Drug Rehabilitation Regime
- Inmates undergoing the Inhalant Abuse Regime
Handover Pre-Release Clothing
Visitors can handover a set of clothing including footwear for the inmates at specified visit registration counter during their scheduled visit between two weeks and two months before the release date, for inmates to wear on the day of release from prison.
Alternatively, visitors can contact 1800-542-9903 and select “visit booking” option to make an appointment to pass the set of clothing on a non-scheduled visit day.
*Please be informed that calls to this 1800 service line from mobile phone may incur airtime charges according to your mobile service provider’s plan.
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Inmate Location |
Location to drop off |
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Cluster A & B |
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Tanah Merah |
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Selarang |
Other Items
For other items, such as spectacles, dentures, photographs and medications, inmates have to submit their requests through the institutions. These requests are subject to approval before visitors are allowed to hand over the items during the visit sessions. Unapproved items will not be accepted.
For spectacles, only plastic lenses with plain, black, plastic, opaque frames are allowed.
For photographs, only 3R or 4R size is allowed. All photographs sent via mail will be discarded to minimise wastage of resources required to process and manage the inventory of unauthorised photographs. To prevent disappointment arising from photographs being discarded, it is important for approved visitors to follow the correct procedure to submit the photographs.
Payment of Items Required by Inmates
For items that inmates are required to make payments, such as spectacles and dentures, they must submit a request first through the institutions.
The requests are subject to approval before the visitors are allowed to make payment via NETS or PayNow at any of the five Prison Link Centres.