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Aug 30, 2009
End of the road for prison
By Teh Joo Lin
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Queenstown Remand Prison (QRP) has closed after 44 years and moved to the new prison cluster at Changi which merges all prisons into one cluster complex. --ST PHOTO: STEPHANIE YEOW
IF THERE was a term to describe the Queenstown Remand Prison, it would be a 'reception area''. Alternatively, a 'transit point'. Or even a very, very budget hotel.
Here it was that suspected criminals were housed, until they were sent to other quarters around the island upon conviction or set free.
Here it was that luminaries such as former National Kidney Foundation chairman T.T. Durai, retail tycoon Tang Wee Sung and television actor Christopher Lee remained as guests of the state, waiting to get out on bail, for short terms to expire, or for their trials to be heard.
Most people do not stay long, usually a month or two, though it is not uncommon for those entangled in complicated murder cases to stay up to a year.
That experience is supposed to be enough to turn most away from a life of crime, according to the last head of the prison, Superintendent Titus Kong.
He said: 'For QRP, we represent the inmates' first step into prison. Our job is to leave an impression so deep, they will remember it for life...and not want to come back to prison again.'
The 388-cell prison built on five acres of land off Margaret Drive in 1965 is now empty. Prisoners were bussed to new quarters in the Changi Prison Complex on Aug 16.
The move to Cluster B2 of the complex was so secret that the inmates knew they were packing up to leave only that Sunday morning.
The move was part of an overall plan to house all prisoners in one jailhouse complex. The QRP was one of five prisons moved in the past two months to Changi. These were the Tanah Merah, Khalsa Crescent, Selarang and Sembawang prisons.
Home > Breaking News > Singapore > Story
Aug 30, 2009
End of the road for prison
By Teh Joo Lin
Queenstown Remand Prison (QRP) has closed after 44 years and moved to the new prison cluster at Changi which merges all prisons into one cluster complex. --ST PHOTO: STEPHANIE YEOW
IF THERE was a term to describe the Queenstown Remand Prison, it would be a 'reception area''. Alternatively, a 'transit point'. Or even a very, very budget hotel.
Here it was that suspected criminals were housed, until they were sent to other quarters around the island upon conviction or set free.
Here it was that luminaries such as former National Kidney Foundation chairman T.T. Durai, retail tycoon Tang Wee Sung and television actor Christopher Lee remained as guests of the state, waiting to get out on bail, for short terms to expire, or for their trials to be heard.
Most people do not stay long, usually a month or two, though it is not uncommon for those entangled in complicated murder cases to stay up to a year.
That experience is supposed to be enough to turn most away from a life of crime, according to the last head of the prison, Superintendent Titus Kong.
He said: 'For QRP, we represent the inmates' first step into prison. Our job is to leave an impression so deep, they will remember it for life...and not want to come back to prison again.'
The 388-cell prison built on five acres of land off Margaret Drive in 1965 is now empty. Prisoners were bussed to new quarters in the Changi Prison Complex on Aug 16.
The move to Cluster B2 of the complex was so secret that the inmates knew they were packing up to leave only that Sunday morning.
The move was part of an overall plan to house all prisoners in one jailhouse complex. The QRP was one of five prisons moved in the past two months to Changi. These were the Tanah Merah, Khalsa Crescent, Selarang and Sembawang prisons.
