How Tough Is Singapore Prison Life? | Inside Maximum Security - Part 1/4 | CNA Documentary

Well, rubble, take note, I can start reaching a professional level. I need to join many competitions from 2009 to 2011, that's why I started to be recognized abroad, so from 2011 to 2014 I managed to get local and foreign skateboard sponsorship, usually for skating. shoe we must have the correct sole much flatter than this then it is not slippery for exercise I do not think it is useful outside you can smell like you know the bus filled the grass the trees cigarette smell yes perfumes the

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university can smell like walls The last competition I had before demonstrating in about 2018 or 2019 and then the curved weight started showing up so there was no competition.

I was in a relationship. He didn't have a girlfriend. I argued with my girlfriend. I didn't mean to hurt her. It's just my mistake I caught her March 2020 that's how I started my prayer it's a one man cell and you're alone in the cell that loneliness when you can't express yourself when you need to talk to someone you're trapped I feel like a bad person man I think I commit many mistakes I have to accept well this is my punishment b1 it is a

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institution and it also houses inmates with very long sentences inmates who are receiving violent intervention programs i I am bad, we don't want unnecessary conflicts, so that is also one of the reasons why we house them in cells in Singapore.

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an but not an affront to human dignity. As you can see, it is simple but at the same time. time prison conditions have to facilitate rehabilitation five zero seven five zero seven yes so this is basically where I stay awake this is my task uh normally this is my sleeping area normally I don't wear clothes or not because inside this cell there is very important, usually around 4 a.m. and 5 a.m., I already wake up so we have nothing to do because it's really dark so we try to go back to sleep once the light comes on then I'll go to our bathroom here so once we let's take a bath, I'll brush my teeth and then I'll come back to this area again to read my Bible after reading, I'll walk around this sound from here to here or on the subway from left to right and when I'm bored, I actually count my feet as seven, the fabric is five. 7 to 7 15 we have started with a mindfulness practice, so there is music playing, attention to all problems, inmates waiting for the main morning check, I repeat, waiting for the main morning check, They must stand up with the touch of their shirt. come in and greet your officer okay master okay good morning good morning master control is a process where we tally the inmate count in our prisons so let's say for example if I have 150 inmates in my house unit, I have to make sure I have 150.

The head count has been tallied, sir. Good morning, not only see them, I also need to make sure they respond. Get your recognition too. Good morning to make sure you don't feel bad or anything. Okay, bravo total present four one four one, so once. master control about 30 minutes and then our latch will open fully. Yes, usually this is very important for us because it is our first sight of the day after the long blockade last night, before breakfast, the shaver will be delivered and they will shave inside the cell afterwards. 10 minutes we will pick up the shaver around 7:45 for our assistance to deliver breakfast to you so our breakfast usually consists of four pieces of bread for you to pass to our adulthood, then we will have our cup so put it on here once.

We give our delegation tea or coffee and we will bring it. I'll finish my breakfast. All. I will walk again. This is the central kitchen that provides meals for the entire class each day. We have more than two meals. Lunch and dinner. Approximately between seven and eight. thousand meals prepared for prison officers, volunteers and inmates in this kitchen, the meals are prepared by imitation workers, staff I Roman, I can close the door, close the door and then open the door 11. Okay, here is preparing the vegetables for lunch and dinner tomorrow, people might wonder if it is safe for inmates to use these kinds of tools in this workshop, but as you can see, the tools here are chained when they come to the kitchen, we will monitor their attitude and performance and we will see who is suitable for which location.

As the vegetable cutting area requires a lot of cutting and grinding, so we need inmates here with the right composure and mind to perform this style task. Okay, what's okay? They protect the frame. Well, now you can have it. There will be chefs from the Singapore airport terminal. Short set services will be here to educate and guide inmates on how to prepare meals. The kitchen offers six to eight different approved diets depending on the diet recommendation. We have a normal soft meatless diet, which means a chili diet for people. who cannot have spicy food low in purine for people who cannot have things like tofu and low sugar for inmates who have diabetes the kitchens will ensure that the daily protein and vegetable nutritional needs of inmates are met all days they have different types of food flaxseed for Monday they have baked chicken for Tuesday they will have fish the food production is done on an industrial scale the inmates are the ones who prepare the meals making sure that the inmates receive the right amount of food, then it is packaged the food is placed in these food carts these food carts will ensure that the food stays hot until it arrives ready to the inmates so on wednesday afternoons we usually eat uh yo or bihoon so today is mingo ring , uh, this is totally, uh, point zero to ten.

I would say maybe maybe zero because it's very cold and sometimes my self also hardened when I was doing those illegal things, it was money. I raise my kids because they love restaurants, Western food, I eat in restaurants almost every day, so compared to the food. Nowadays it's like heaven and health, usually after eating I'm still hungry for me, it's not enough for lunch, we usually don't have meat at dinner time, we have two chicken breasts or fish over the years , I really start to adapt the food. but eventually I still miss food outside of the way they serve us or what it's like being treated like a pet in the cage for me, it's definitely hard.

Today I left with 50 days to finish. I have collected all these items so I can reward. myself every night for my countdown b1 is one of the

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presences we have about 500 inmates here are bravo can grammy a day room a slider the cells we have here at b1 are special in the sense that They are all one man cells elsewhere you have one treatment cell performance cell and eight man cells here you see the image cell door. Okay, it consists of three key elements here, which is the display panel and we have two openings, one above and one below, there is this

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. where it is perforated so that from here we can listen and talk to the image inside.

It is not recommended to talk through the opening because you know we don't know what they have up their sleeve, they can throw things or grab all the items you have near you. the opening is fine, so the sign you see here is basically the cell layout that the images should follow. They are given a set of items within the cell, so when it comes time for the master check, they have to arrange the items according to the poster. picture shown here they will be given a transparent tablet a box of soap a brand with a lid okay uh it is uh transparent so that things can see what they hide inside they are given a suitable plastic spoon to use when they eat your food and we have a set of toothbrush and toothpaste, the toothpaste is made in a way that it is transparent and you can see the things inside, if they hid something inside, it will be visible for the things to see and if you see the Toothbrush on top here is made in a way that it is very short because if they used it as a weapon, I would say that it won't cause much damage compared to a longer toothbrush.

Each rematch will also receive two blankets large enough to cover their entire body last but not least we have the straw mat for them to lie down and sleep on the hard floor if they want it to be more padded and they will simply fold the blanket so that it remains like a mattress. This is the toilet. area where the inmate goes to the bathroom and also takes a shower so the CCTV captures everything inside the cell including the bathroom area so if they go to the bathroom to know how to relieve themselves or they will if they had to take a shower we can see everything at night the cctvs that are inside the cell are equipped so that they can see in the dark this is a one man cell it can be psychologically small in a way if you are cooked here for a long time for the weekend it's really a very big impact, a very, very big impact for 48 hours knowing that your perimeter is just this, it really disturbs the mind and the body too my wax my moisturizer my lip pump my lotion these are all the things I wasn't afraid of before I came back I was a fitness trainer I was living a great

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people wanted to have a car to get a bike to get a house to get everything I achieved do it all before I even reached 30 For this time my sentence was quite transparent to Istana during that time.

Now he was high. I just tend to follow my thoughts and I like to go to places that eventually are uh. interesting or unique when they called me I had a drug utensil with me jason they led me to drug use I was sentenced to three years in prison for drug use and performance for drug utensil position okay, the blankets are the most important thing to me Because Because the blanket can change to become sharp, then we have a plastic spoon. Generally, I think you guys only use it once. So, yes, this thing is like one more year with me one more new one, yes, this Christmas made from China, yes, totally this one.

I don't know why they give us, I think maybe it's a budget, but it doesn't give any effect, yes, certainly, seriously, because I know, this thing is not the normal soul, so this is pretty good, better than the normal software. an overly dry way to dry central soap is one of those things that motivates inmates to maintain their behavior in prison so they can go to work soon, so once you go to work, we'll give you an assignment and then you'll be able to buy canteen items like soap, so I got these gifts from the allowance I had working as a field facilitator today.

I left with 50 days until my release date on January 21st. I have collected all of these items so I can reward myself every night for my countdown by getting some rewards and achieving these rewards on my own. Eventually I can make myself think better during the time I am here as a docker. Basically, I worry, I forget that I need to focus on the risk of getting in trouble fighting arguing and disobeying officers it could be a three day to seven day extension to my release date tonight I'm going to treat myself to a cookie tonight whiskey is very good in meat but it doesn't mean that all good inmates are good citizens we I have a lot of experience where the inmate will be, but after two months they come back and fail to become a good citizen.

He's a very good inmate, but what we're focusing on now is that we want him to become a good citizen, so that's our next challenge. we have to prepare it before we release the standby for the sausages every time I hear my turn to play I feel very calm now you can't do all this, insider, yes I went to charlie, send a solid message to Mr. Ben, send your message. for charlie, prepare for the cell search in room one, i am a little mister ben roger, proceed, okay, we are going to conduct a routine cell search from five zero seven until five eleven, okay, book in Wait for the sales search, this is part of the prison regulations that we must search the cell to make sure they don't keep any contraband.

Contraband may include excessive items or any modified items such as cell hook ropes. Okay, bravo you can run the search on cell 507. We want to make sure that the environment is really safe. for the inmates and the officers to work, so every day we have a scheduled time about sales to search, okay, take out your box every time I hear my turn to search for sources, uh, I feel really bad now, yeah, going to bed Before entering, you have something to declare. no sir, it will also come with cashew nuts, so this is basically where I live, this is my house, so after the degrees centigrade I have to complain to thewholesaler, so usually images would like to keep things anywhere in the sheila norfolk, usually the holes.

Around here they will use dotting bullets or you can even put in straws to use as hooks to hang things. Then usually they'll have a long piece of rope and then you just pull and twist and twist and twist just to hide it. This rope they will use to thread their eyebrows or facial hair if they are called contraband in the cell, a report is filed against them and they may lose opportunities in terms of the work program or even lose our cell activity. when it comes to the bathroom area this is where it gets more exciting as here you see a makeshift hook that is not allowed in each cell they are allowed to have three cell hooks well two in the living room and one in the bathroom so this is a bonus one I will definitely ask the picture to delete this and pass it on to me and give you a heads up that we have standard cell items for inmates if emails are allowed have its own elements, then it actually makes our office work more difficult. to check and then secondly it's also more about enforcing equality between inmates, we need to make sure that everyone is treated equally, the reason I call is to see if there's anything coming in or going out so that these are the buttons for flushing in the shower normally we just press flush first to see if they're hiding anything in the bathroom they'll usually hide things right under the pipe here so we'll use the flush button to dump it all in in case they know what you're hiding.

So in my experience, when we do a cell search, we check the toilet bowl because sometimes we can find that inmates hide things inside there, like medicines, tablets, even improvised items that they want to hide. Okay, the reservation can come in with his ego box, most likely so. They are smuggling among themselves without knowing that they can get the things from any place you can imagine, but all this is not on the radar of the staff, that is why it is very important for us to search the cell phones every day regularly. This origami looks good now, but you can't do all this inside, huh?

For origami and other works of art that emails like to create, they are not part of the standardized elements and are also part of the image discipline within the prison, so it is not. allowed, let's say if you could save a long piece of rope that was turned into a rope, you can use it to, you know, hang yourself, if there are sharp things that could also be a risk for us when we work here, fortunately for us. The inmate from before, no major contraband was found, it's just trash and some makeshift items that don't involve security inside our housing unit, with some straws and in fact the extra huga is makeshift as food, so basically we use inside. rice to make a glue to spread the paper, so after it dries it hardens, make sure that the five uh for the sauce is actually for the advice cost.

We have this belief that if we perform well, they will actually give us packaged drinks so that the show is actually where it comes from. I feel like hope for color is not enough because I usually hang the tower to dry and when I enter the bar I also have to take off my pants, so I usually find something to Hook up, that's where I do the extra hook after everything this has been confiscated. I think I have to re-adapt to using enough method in the right way. Well, so far, all the other stuff I find here is garbage and all the stuff you're not supposed to keep with fish straws, makeshift cell hooks, all of this gives you a warning, okay, if you make it again This, the punishment will be greater, okay, okay, we will leave you for the offense you committed within yourself for selling extras. hooks and all the straws you saved, yes, housing, you need an informal resolution system, it is a platform where we record the bad actions of inmates, what it does is take the recognition of the issuers who have made some mistake and gives them as a contract not to make the same mistake within six months, if not, then they will be liable for a higher punishment, which is a disciplinary charge.

Okay, I'm sorry, okay, so in prisons we have minor and major charges, so for minor charges he gets angry about calling another inmate. disobeying the officer's instructions or maintaining excessive or altered items for the image convicted of minor charges the punishment may range from a written warning confinement in a peace punishment cell up to seven days or this release date will be extended for major charges can impose cleanliness and for serious crimes In some cases, it can also be referred to the police, a major charge can range from fighting with other inmates, hoarding medication and even a tattoo in prison, game bravo, granny five zero nine five.

I think the hardest part in prison is controlling, maybe if you're outside. you can be in control, but right now I'm in here, I can't do anything, nothing to declare, they save enough to eat later at night, when they're hungry and all, but they should only have two. I can't let them keep it for too long because it could cause pain and make them sick, so we have to remove this one because it's been a few days already. This is just his own personal drawings so I will also take this one because it is an unauthorized material there is no chalk it does not have an official seal so I will remove it why because it could lead him to write messages through the housing unit or even through from the institution plastic staplers and A4 paper we cannot do all this We have cancer in the cell that we are definitely not allowed to have because we can use it to tattoo, although all these things in prison are not allowed, but we have our means together.

One of the possible ways the inmates obtained their contraband could be through the Housing Unit Attendants who can put in contraband or additional items while doing the food security, in reality everyone knows that these are against the rules, they bought one at the bottom of the room, there's nothing to do, so I only do the tattoo if I'm in front of the CCTV like I'm reading. A book likes camouflage. Some magazines will be thicker. We used a stapler like the ones you can find. You can find them in some magazines. You have to be round and thicker.

It's not like normal paper. A stapler closes the track. I need a rope because, um, the swing. It's too light we'll tie it to the stapler dependent on you we'll try to get it from the doctor we ask you uh as a medicine for diarrhea they'll give us this charcoal we'll leave it to the thread it'll absorb it easily they don't have the proper facilities make those tattoos so you can improvise and I've seen infections all over his swollen hand, that's one of the reasons we want to stop it. The other aspect is the inmate subculture, a lot of our inmates are gang affiliated, so usually some of the tattoos. what they want to put are gang symbols and that can be problematic and can affect the good order and discipline of the institutions back then I was a member of society so we get this tattoo to show a little slowness and then to let people know that.

We are from this gang hidden very high correctly so the official soy is like a fresh wound so they call me my release date I have extended it by 21 days and four strokes of kinship I also think nothing on three different occasions I carried three different types of weapons , in fact the first weapon I got was a solar samurai, yes I plan to go to this place to meet this guy who I just want to cut him down and then I come over to teach him a lesson that he shouldn't be messed with. other people's wife, the second weapon I carried was a parang which I needed because at the time I was paranoid, people followed me and then my last weapon I carried was a brand knife, it is actually a protection for me other time, I couldn't use it. but after they caught me when they killed you there is no surrender in total I have 21 blows from the king when they kill you you can't you can't scream you can't faint either and you can't look weak we are in society So you have to be

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er if you always don't You can go, you can't bear other problems in the future, how are you going to deal with them.

What I am preparing here now is for the patient's basic wound care. After the cane, contrary to what people normally think, they are superficial linear wounds, vibrations, it will not bleed profusely. I would consider it a minor wound because there is no deep tissue cut. They try to walk immediately after the cleaning process. Some cry, others don't. They are more difficult than others if they ask for painkillers, we will prescribe them until now. I haven't seen any requests. Uh, yes, I present these things to you, but my family is there, everything that happens from here is nothing I look forward to.

For its time it is because we basically exercise and the space is much bigger so we can feel more air coming in from there we are ready, we are doing our usual exercise routine, so it is our so-called high intensity hiita training. Usually a week we have two hours of yacht time, there are two times a week, so there are four on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Well, here the yacht time is quite long or two hours, yes, we will do it as a full user when the officers supervise the yacht. It can be very discouraging. you're guarding a large number of inmates in a confined space the officers are statically trained they'll wait for unexpected guys all of you can't use the bench to work out hey if you're trying to bench press that will deprive someone of using the bench table to read the newspaper or play games and also the bench is not designed for that purpose either, so next time I want to see this, okay, this is how we are showing the not correct way to exercise, but I can really do it, like jogging, doing push-ups with soda.

We hit but we can't use any equipment in the yard and let's say the wall, the bench, everything we can't use and we can't cross the red line around basically we just exercise smart so when there's an official we try simply wire a villa. redo something that is not allowed and that would make us come here, so most of us will continue doing it because there is nothing else we can do little by little. Well, this is my portfolio when I was at Visual Arts Hub. We can draw. Visual Art Hub is a place where inmates can do like our art pottery carpentry party yes you can do anything to express ourselves this is the photo of me and my wife I use a pencil eraser photos it is very valuable here every month we have 20 points that will be if not If they charge you or something, we will get 20 points, so you will have to accumulate 60.

Point for a photo and sixty points, it takes about three months to accumulate them, yes, so you have to keep your contact like three months, yes, to get only 60 points. you can claim your exchange for your photo. My wife got married in 2008 so after a year I need to go to prison because of some cases I did during that time. My wife was pregnant. She's still waiting for me. Never leave me, my wife did not miss any visits only twice because she needed to give birth and bring my eldest daughter for Jacob. I use money to show my love to my wife, whatever she wants, like those render bags, all of this is fine. come on, let's go look for it, they provide me, they are living in their house, the supermarket did everything they can, I feel that some of my wife don't have to work and little by little, little by little, I start to return to drugs, little by little, yes, everything is gone, come, give me your friends.

I feel like it's quite humiliating, because every now and then I have to look for people like those prostitutes. We are no different if I am found guilty in the company we hanged for. I was petrified. I didn't think it was. I'm going to die, I even made my own video. She wanted to divorce me. I feel it is very unfair.