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Hegningarhúsið

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Verified 29 May 2026
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How to send mail, money, and visit Hegningarhúsið

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  • Hegningarhúsið (The Penalty House) in Reykjavík.jpg

    Photo by Olga Ernst via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0)

  • Hegningarhúsið (The Penalty House), Reykjavík.jpg

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  • Hegningarhúsið Exercise Yard.jpg

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  • Hegningarhúsið.jpg

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  • Iceland-Reykjavik-Skolavordustigur-Prison-1.jpg

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  • Iceland-Reykjavik-Skolavordustigur-Prison-2.jpg

    Photo by Guðmundur D. Haraldsson via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Capacity

Current population

Occupancy

Year opened

1874

Operational

Facility profile

Operator

Population held

Mixed/unknown

Opened

1874

Region

Security level

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.

Contact & address

Conditions Risk Score

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Data completeness

20%

How many of our profile fields are populated. We surface this so families and researchers know the limits.

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