Female Offenders with Mental Disorders in Psychiatric Correctional Unit at Institution A4

ICPA2024 Presentation by Joanne Chow and Shavani Ramesh (ICPA2024-PID184)

Authors

Joanne Chow

Officer-in-charge (Correctional Unit), Institution A4, SPS

Joanne is a uniformed officer with the Singapore Prison Service (SPS) and is currently an Officer-in-Charge of the Psychiatric Correctional Unit (PCU). Together with a multidisciplinary team comprising of SPS officers, medical practitioners and psychologists from the Institute of Mental Health (IMH), they deliver interventions to assist inmates at the PCU, to meet their specific rehabilitation and reintegration needs. Prior to this, Joanne was at the Ministry of Home Affairs, Policy Development Division, working on drug and prison-related policy matters.

Shivani Ramesh

Operational Therapist , Institute of Mental Health

Shivani Ramesh is an occupational therapist at the Institute of Mental Health. She graduated from the University of Sydney with a Bachelor of Applied Science with Honours. Currently, she is working as an Institute of Mental Health staff at the Psychiatric Correctional Unit, Singapore Prison Service. Shivani works closely with the Singapore Prison Service Correctional Unit Officers to support the women Offenders with Mental Disorders at Institution A4 through the conduct of various intervention programmes.

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