Lion City, how????

Lack of criminals force Singapore to shutter prison construction



SINGAPORE - Singapore has shut down construction of two prisons partly because the city-state’s aging population isn’t producing enough criminals, its prisons director said in remarks published Friday.

Ng Joo Hee said work on two of the four prisons of the Singapore $1 billion ($718 million) Changi Prison Complex was halted after the country’s inmate population fell to a 10-year low of 11,768 last year.

“In an aging population, you generally see a lower crime rate," Ng was quoted as saying in the Straits Times newspaper.

He could not be reached on Friday.

Singapore has some of the stiffest penalties for crime in the world, including cane lashes and death by hanging for some drug offenses. It also has one of the lowest birth rates, and the government is trying to encourage couples to have more children.

Its crime rate fell to 696 incidents per 100,000 people last year from 974 in 1997.

The paper said fewer repeat offenders and less drug abuse has helped thin the prison population. About a quarter of inmates released in 2005 returned within two years, while about half went back to prison in 1998.

Ng credited prison education and work-study programs for the falling recidivism rate, the newspaper said.

Drug rehabilitation centers housed 451 patients last year, down from 5,508 in 1997.

Courts are also more hesitant to send offenders to prison, choosing other punishments such as probation instead, the paper said. - AP


tsk. tsk. can you believe this? i cant even walk around my block without a firm hand on my bag.

my dady told me that even a simple spit means imprisonment... as well as smoking in the public... err...

BongBong wrote:

my dady told me that even a simple spit means imprisonment... as well as smoking in the public... err...

haha! thats true. you wont be able to buy chewing gums ANYWHERE, i heard! smoking in public? yay! is that true?? haha!

i heard that oral sex is illegal there. haha! but then again, do offenders get caught? haha!
Singaporean friends/pinoys in singapore, who can confirm this info??????

[quote="swansong"]

BongBong wrote:

my dady told me that even a simple spit means imprisonment... as well as smoking in the public... err...

haha! thats true. you wont be able to buy chewing gums ANYWHERE, i heard! smoking in public? yay! is that true?? haha!

i heard that oral sex is illegal there. haha! but then again, do offenders get caught? haha!
Singaporean friends/pinoys in singapore, who can confirm this info?????? [/quote

Smoking in public? Nah, that ain't true, i do that most of the time. You can even drink anywhere here in Lioncity and the cops won't give a shit about it, seriously.

Oral sex? Im not quite sure about it, i haven't been caught though Better ask our resident Sex Guru "El Presidente" to substantiate that claim.

hahaha! ask el presidente? oh no no no!! no, lah! not the royalties! hahaha! i wont ask him. i hope he'll be able to read this, though. hihihi!!

farouk, kaki perampuan in full effect! nyahaha!

@Delusion - ohh talaga? hmm... ayus un ahh... bakit di ka makakabili ng chewing gum jan? :-O

^^

Haha. Kasi chewing gum is bad for health.

Sa pagkakaalam ko lang ah, hindi pa absolute truth eto. Hindi ata sya kulong agad. Parang community service ata muna. Yung tipong walis-walis ka muna sa kalye, mga ganung stuffs.

Pero ewan ko rin, di pa ako nagawi sa Lion City e.

feeling ko... kasi nga sobra silang linis, chewing gum is a one mess na mahirap linisin sa streets kaya siguro bawal... i dunno... where's mr. el presidente? hahaha!! wandering the streets of geylang? hihihi!! i miss ahkong... the best nee goreng!!!!

BongBong wrote:

@Delusion - ohh talaga? hmm... ayus un ahh... bakit di ka makakabili ng chewing gum jan? :-O

Pagkakaalam ko dahil ito sa di maayos na pagtatapon ng gum ng mga locals nun, usually kasi dinidikit sa mga bus, upuan, elvators, hagdanan at iba pang pam publikong pasilidad, mahirap ngang linisin at tangalin to at nakakadagdag pa sa cost ng gobyerno. pero ang isa pang major na dahilan kung bakit na banned yung chewing gum ayon sa mga repapips natin dito ay dahil maraming mga vandals na nag stick ng chewing gum dun sa door sensor ng MRT na kadalasan di tuloy gumagana yung pinto ng MRT at minsan nag cacause pa ng disruption sa service nito, mga sometime around mid 80' to early 90's ata nangyari yun.
Hindi na rin yata ganun ka harsh yung law na yun, binago na rin yata. Kung mahuli ka man, community service lang yung gagawin mo, di ka agad mag fine. Ako kasi nagdala ko ng 2 box ng bubble gum dito at sanay kasi ko palagi sa atin na palagi mag gum everytime na lalabas ako, pero napansin ko lang na karamihan ng locals dito ay di pa rin nag gagagum, kaya iwas pusoy din ako pag nag gagagum dito lalo na pag nasa MRT ako, mga simpleng nguya lang ng gum hehehe!

panalo ata dun sa lion city a... bagay ako dun, kulang pala sila sa mga kriminal e...

hindi lang maganda sa singapore, galing pa ng eksena nila dun. maliit lang populasyon ng DIY dun pero panalo sa unity.
suporta lahat. sana mangyari din yun dito. haaayyy... what kills me is they get all the fun... like tonight, ENVY will play there.
lucky bastards. hahaha! Kagagaling lang ng Mono dun. pakingshet!

yo farouk! nood ka ng envy?

No lah, im on sick bay, down by a flu.
Kulang sa Barons beer kaya tinablan ng sakit

Farouk wrote:

No lah, im on sick bay, down by a flu.
Kulang sa Barons beer kaya tinablan ng sakit

aawww.....Semoga cepat sembuh.

@Farouk - sana mangyari yan dito... langya ginagawa pa pantritrip... isa na ako sa biktima )

and btw... you're a Muslim right?

@swansong - Singapura is an island... maliit pero very strong... ang Pinas sandamukal ang mga isla... kalat kalat pa... ni gobyerno nga di pa ma-unify hahaha

BongBong wrote:

@Farouk - sana mangyari yan dito... langya ginagawa pa pantritrip... isa na ako sa biktima )

and btw... you're a Muslim right?

@swansong - Singapura is an island... maliit pero very strong... ang Pinas sandamukal ang mga isla... kalat kalat pa... ni gobyerno nga di pa ma-unify hahaha

wahhhhhhhh..faouk! pinromote ka ng muslim!! nyahaha...

positivementalattitude wrote:

BongBong wrote:

@Farouk - sana mangyari yan dito... langya ginagawa pa pantritrip... isa na ako sa biktima )

and btw... you're a Muslim right?

@swansong - Singapura is an island... maliit pero very strong... ang Pinas sandamukal ang mga isla... kalat kalat pa... ni gobyerno nga di pa ma-unify hahaha

wahhhhhhhh..faouk! pinromote ka ng muslim!! nyahaha...

oo nga noh hehe! Tamang tama para makapag asawa na ako ng marami dito hehe!

^^ ahaha di ka ba muslim?

BongBong wrote:

^^ ahaha di ka ba muslim?

Dehins repapips, lokohan lang namin ni 'MR' Swansong yun hehe

^^ ohh i see hahaha babatian kita sana ng Salaam alaikum hahaha

yeah... mr. bong bong biruan lang yun. malay natin, someday magconvert na yan.

kasi puro muslim kasama nyan sa Lion City eh.

And you should hear farouk... mismong mga taga singapore nao- OP sa galing nyang magBahasa. galing magturo nyan ng bahasa. hihihi! terimah kasih mister guru....

^^ ohh nice hehehe i only know a little Bahasa... since related ang Filipino sa Bahasa hahaha

lion katol kc ako pamilyar eh!

no you wont go to jail for spitting or chewing gum, but you can surely get fined.

it's clean, safe, sterile.

but also full of censors, nepotism and human zombies.

marry Western style democracy with Confucian inspired Chinese conservatism, wrap it up with communist slants, confuse everyone, brand it with totalitarianism and lay this complexity neatly onto a social blueprint...

and you have Singapore.

hybrid-regime.

the neo-fascist state.

^^ ahaha naku hindi ko na maimagine kung anu na yan =))

Welcome to Oceania, where the Thought Police reign!

I'm from Singapore, and under Section 377 of the penal code "carnal intercourse against the course of nature", i.e. oral and anal sex are criminalized. Of course, there isn't so much as surveillance in our homes/most private spaces (yet) so I'd say most people get away with it. It's ridiculous how the Singapore government are even poking their nose into our private affairs...

thegirlatomic wrote:

Welcome to Oceania, where the Thought Police reign!

I'm from Singapore, and under Section 377 of the penal code "carnal intercourse against the course of nature", i.e. oral and anal sex are criminalized. Of course, there isn't so much as surveillance in our homes/most private spaces (yet) so I'd say most people get away with it. It's ridiculous how the Singapore government are even poking their nose into our private affairs...

oral sex is "carnal intercourse against the course of nature?!?"
oh wow!

zepol wrote:

thegirlatomic wrote:

Welcome to Oceania, where the Thought Police reign!

I'm from Singapore, and under Section 377 of the penal code "carnal intercourse against the course of nature", i.e. oral and anal sex are criminalized. Of course, there isn't so much as surveillance in our homes/most private spaces (yet) so I'd say most people get away with it. It's ridiculous how the Singapore government are even poking their nose into our private affairs...

oral sex is "carnal intercourse against the course of nature?!?"
oh wow!

omg pwedeng title ng kanta yun ah.... CxIxAxTxCxOxNx anyone?

zepol wrote:

thegirlatomic wrote:

Welcome to Oceania, where the Thought Police reign!

I'm from Singapore, and under Section 377 of the penal code "carnal intercourse against the course of nature", i.e. oral and anal sex are criminalized. Of course, there isn't so much as surveillance in our homes/most private spaces (yet) so I'd say most people get away with it. It's ridiculous how the Singapore government are even poking their nose into our private affairs...

oral sex is "carnal intercourse against the course of nature?!?"
oh wow!

hahaha!! you are totally turned on!!!! perv alert!!!!

m(A)rcor(E) wrote:

lion katol kc ako pamilyar eh!

liontiger katol.
kriminal at lamok siguradong tepok!

sg doesn't give too much hassle on my side everythings good so far , i manage to spit without getting myself in some serious shit haha

swansong wrote:

zepol wrote:

thegirlatomic wrote:

Welcome to Oceania, where the Thought Police reign!

I'm from Singapore, and under Section 377 of the penal code "carnal intercourse against the course of nature", i.e. oral and anal sex are criminalized. Of course, there isn't so much as surveillance in our homes/most private spaces (yet) so I'd say most people get away with it. It's ridiculous how the Singapore government are even poking their nose into our private affairs...

oral sex is "carnal intercourse against the course of nature?!?"
oh wow!

hahaha!! you are totally turned on!!!! perv alert!!!!

Crazy! Does it mean im one of the offenders then??
"Section 377 of the penal code" wouldn't stop me in sowing the seeds of terror on this small island state hahaha Bring it on!! DCN attack in full effect!!

Farouk Bin Yusof wrote:

swansong wrote:

zepol wrote:

thegirlatomic wrote:

Welcome to Oceania, where the Thought Police reign!

I'm from Singapore, and under Section 377 of the penal code "carnal intercourse against the course of nature", i.e. oral and anal sex are criminalized. Of course, there isn't so much as surveillance in our homes/most private spaces (yet) so I'd say most people get away with it. It's ridiculous how the Singapore government are even poking their nose into our private affairs...

oral sex is "carnal intercourse against the course of nature?!?"
oh wow!

hahaha!! you are totally turned on!!!! perv alert!!!!

Crazy! Does it mean im one of the offenders then??
"Section 377 of the penal code" wouldn't stop me in sowing the seeds of terror on this small island state hahaha Bring it on!! DCN attack in full effect!!

bwahahaha!!! DCN in the house, y'all!
tangina farouk, wala ka nabang sakit kaya ka nagkakaganyan?? hahahha! o nasapian ka na naman ni almighty baron?!

marami bang chiks jan sa Singapore?

pucha hirap pala tumira sa lion city bawal pati oral sex bawal,pano na lang pag birthday mo?eh di hindi pede magblow-out?ang corni noh?!
masarap pa din pala sa pinas,sa pedicab lang talo-talo na
RAT CITY rules!!!

OFOH!!!

anarkispanky wrote:

OFOH!!!

taragis, ano ba talaga ibig sabihin nyang "OFOH!" mo
kulet eh

"OFOH!!!" (ayan ni-ripoff ko na)

OFOH = Otap, Fandesal, Okra, Halu halo

ay anu ba yan... gutom pala ako... =))

tama si spanky... kanal pa lang Rat City na hahaha

Tanda ko nung bandang Grade 4 ako, pumunta kami sa Singapore, bago palang ako umapak sa eroplano sabi ng nanay ko ubusin ko na raw yung isang haba ko ng juicy fruit at lagot raw kame pag nakita yun, tsaka dun pala mahuli ka lang na kumakain sa bus either makukulong ka ng 1 week o mag cocommunity service ka for 2 days,wew..

^^ grabe naman un... pwede namang hindi magkalat at magdala ng sariling basurahan... amp

zepol wrote:

anarkispanky wrote:

OFOH!!!

taragis, ano ba talaga ibig sabihin nyang "OFOH!" mo
kulet eh

"OFOH!!!" (ayan ni-ripoff ko na)

wala lang,churva lang OFOH!!!