Over 40 years, Poh Lim’s drug addiction and theft-related offences have seen him sent to prison 10 times. Due for release soon, he vows this will be the last time behind bars - but is it a promise the 65-year-old can keep?
His elderly mother is tired of visiting him in jail; she just wants him to make a decent life for himself back out in society. But the way he sees it, he’s got few educational qualifications, no real job experience to speak of, and is old - who would give him a job?
He’s serving the tail end of his 7.5-year sentence at Singapore Prisons’ Institution B4, where inmates undergo rehabilitative programmes such as vocational training and counselling to prepare them for release.
00:00 Institution B4, a pre-release institution
01:06 Inside an 8-men cell
02:18 Visit by his mother
03:33 Thoughts on life after release
Watch the first episode of Inside Maximum Security: https://youtu.be/tJqRPycWUDg
Inside Maximum Security is an observational documentary that goes behind the bars at Singapore’s Changi Prison. Five inmates, incarcerated multiple times and at least once at maximum security, agree to reveal their full identities.
Also watch:
Inside Singapore’s Only Women’s Prison: https://youtu.be/1NIXcUObjXc
Don’t Put Me In Jail: How Young Offenders Become Probationers: https://youtu.be/P20BKp5ssyc
40 Years In & Out of Jail, Ex-Gangster Struggles In English-Speaking Singapore: https://youtu.be/Ip-JrdnHtz4
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