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Capacity

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Current population

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Occupancy

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Year opened

1937

Operational

Figures from official sources · verified 29 May 2026 · methodology

Facility profile

Population held

Mixed/unknown

Opened

1937

Region

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Security level

Maximum

Death-row facility

No

Conditions

No conditions summary available yet.

Visiting

No visiting information available.

Mailing

No mailing information available.

Practical info

Contact the operator's website for inmate-specific procedures.

Known issues

No major issues documented in our database.

Notable inmates

  • Tsang Tak-sing
    Tsang Tak-sing
    1949 · justice of the peace

    Tsang Tak Sing (Chinese: 曾德成; born 1949, Canton, China) is the former Secretary for Home Affairs of Hong Kong.

  • Lam Kor-wan
    1955 · serial killer

    Lam Kor-wan (Chinese: 林過雲; Jyutping: lam4 gwo3 wan4; born 22 May 1955) is one of Hong Kong's most notorious serial killers.

  • Thomas Kwok
    Thomas Kwok
    1951 · entrepreneur

    Thomas Kwok Ping-kwong (Chinese: 郭炳江; pinyin: Guō Bǐngjiāng; Cantonese Yale: Gwok Bínggōng; born October 6, 1951) is a Hong Kong billionaire, and the former joint chairman and managing director (with his brother Raymond Kwok) of Sun Hung Kai Properties, the largest property developer in Hong Kong.

  • Lew Mon-hung
    Lew Mon-hung
    1948 · politician

    Lew Mon-hung (Chinese: 劉夢熊; born 11 December 1948), nicknamed "Dream Bear" based on his Chinese name, is a pro-Beijing Hong Kong businessman, formerly deputy chairman and executive director of Pearl Oriental Oil Limited.

  • Chak Nuen-fai
    1919–2013 · writer
  • Donald Tsang
    Donald Tsang
    1944 · politician
  • Yip Kai-foon
    1961–2017 · robber

    Yip Kai-foon (Chinese: 葉繼歡; 12 June 1961 – 19 April 2017), also known as "Teeth Dog" and "Goosehead", was an infamous Chinese criminal who was most active in Hong Kong from the early 1980s to 1990s.

  • Mat Yeung
    Mat Yeung
    1981 · actor

    Mat Yeung Ming (born 27 February 1981) is a Hong Kong television actor and host known for his roles as Lui Ting in Screen Play (2000), as Wan Po-yu in The 'W' Files (2003), as Tin Hoi in Be Home for Dinner (2011), and as Senior Inspector Jasper Kong in Master of Play (2012). .

  • Luk Tak-shing
    1947 · trade unionist

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APA
World Prisons. (2026). Stanley Prison. Retrieved October 20, 2026, from https://worldprisons.com/prisons/stanley-prison
Chicago
"Stanley Prison." World Prisons. Accessed October 20, 2026. https://worldprisons.com/prisons/stanley-prison.
BibTeX
@misc{worldprisons-stanley-prison,
  author = {{World Prisons}},
  title = {Stanley Prison},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://worldprisons.com/prisons/stanley-prison},
  urldate = {2026-10-20}
}