Ila Detention and Security Prison
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For families
How to send mail, money, and visit Ila Detention and Security Prison
Step-by-step guidance using the Norway system — addresses, money services, visit booking, what to bring on your first visit.
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Background
Ila prison and detention center (Norwegian: Ila fengsel og forvaringsanstalt) is a high security prison in Ila in Bærum municipality in Akershus county, outside the capital city of Oslo in Norway. It is the national preventive detention facility for men in Norway, i.e. the prison for men serving preventive detention (forvaring), Norway's maximum penalty. Ila generally houses the most dangerous criminals in Norway, who are convicted of violent and sexual crimes. Organisations within the facility Nasjonal forsterket fellesskapsavdeling (as of 2023).
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Capacity
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Current population
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Occupancy
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Year opened
1951
Operational
Facility profile
Operator
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Population held
Mixed/unknown
Opened
1951
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
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.
Sources
- Wikidata — Wikimedia Foundation
- Wikipedia — Wikimedia Foundation
- See /data-sources for our overall methodology.