Helsinki County Prison
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Gallery
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Photo by Ralf Roletschek (talk) - Fahrradtechnik auf fahrradmonteur.de via Wikimedia Commons (FAL)
Photo by Ralf Roletschek (talk) - Fahrradtechnik auf fahrradmonteur.de via Wikimedia Commons (FAL)
Photo by Ralf Roletschek (talk) - Fahrradtechnik auf fahrradmonteur.de via Wikimedia Commons (FAL)
Photo by Ralf Roletschek (talk) - Fahrradtechnik auf fahrradmonteur.de via Wikimedia Commons (FAL)
Photo by Ralf Roletschek (talk) - Fahrradtechnik auf fahrradmonteur.de via Wikimedia Commons (FAL)
Background
The Helsinki County Prison ("Helsingin lääninvankila" in Finnish) in the Helsinki city quarters of Katajanokka was a prison that operated from 1837 to 2002. It was established in 1837 by Tsar Nikolai I by the side of the Helsinki Crown Prison, which had operated from 1749. When completed, the prison had 12 cells, two rooms for guards and a worship room which is still extant and has been used for church weddings. The prison area was surrounded by a high red brick wall. The prison was extended in 1888 with the construction of a cell block in the form of a cross, in the classical Philadelphia model; the old part of the prison was converted to an administrative building.
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Capacity
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Current population
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Occupancy
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Year opened
1837
Operational
Facility profile
Operator
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Population held
Mixed/unknown
Opened
1837
Region
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Security level
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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
No public contact details available.
Conditions Risk Score
Derived signal — not a judgement. How it's calculated
Data completeness
16%How many of our profile fields are populated. We surface this so families and researchers know the limits.
Sources
- Wikidata — Wikimedia Foundation
- Wikipedia — Wikimedia Foundation
- See /data-sources for our overall methodology.