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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
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Current population
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Occupancy
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Year opened
1993
Operational
Figures from official sources · verified 28 May 2026 · methodology
Facility profile
Operator
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Population held
Mixed/unknown
Opened
1993
Region
Jokela
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
34%How many of our profile fields are populated. We surface this so families and researchers know the limits.
Sources
- Wikipedia — Wikimedia Foundation
- OpenStreetMap — OpenStreetMap Contributors
- Wikidata — Wikimedia Foundation
- Wikidata (Q19818282)
- Wikipedia
- See /data-sources for our overall methodology.
Cite this page
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World Prisons. (2026). Jokela Prison. Retrieved October 15, 2026, from https://worldprisons.com/prisons/jokela-prison
"Jokela Prison." World Prisons. Accessed October 15, 2026. https://worldprisons.com/prisons/jokela-prison.
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author = {{World Prisons}},
title = {Jokela Prison},
year = {2026},
url = {https://worldprisons.com/prisons/jokela-prison},
urldate = {2026-10-15}
}