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Jokela Prison

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Background

The Jokela Prison (Finnish: Jokelan vankila) is a prison located near the Jokela railway station in the Jokela village of Tuusula, Finland, opened in 1993. The prison is part of Southern Finland's criminal sanctions area maintained by the Criminal Sanctions Agency. The capacity of prison is 84 in the closed ward and 40 in the open prison outside the wall. About one third of the prison's inmates are of foreign origin. About 90 people work in Jokela prison, most of them in surveillance and prisoner transport.

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Capacity

Current population

Occupancy

Year opened

1993

Operational

Facility profile

Operator

Population held

Mixed/unknown

Opened

1993

Region

Jokela

Security level

Death-row facility

No

Conditions

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Visiting

No visiting information available.

Mailing

No mailing information available.

Practical info

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Known issues

No major issues documented in our database.

Contact & address

1 Tikuntekijäntie, Jokela 05400

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Data completeness

34%

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