Naarajärvi Prison

Naarajärvi Prison is located about 10 kilometres from Pieksämäki along the road to Jyväskylä.

Contact information

Linnatie 25, 76850 Naarajärvi, Finland
PB 1, 76851 Naarajärvi, Finland
Tel +358 29 56 85700
Email: naarajarvi.vankila(at)om.fi

Email to a prisoner: vankiposti.naarajarvi(at)om.fi
Instructions: Sending email, post and money to a prisoner
The message is not processed if it is not compliant with the instructions.

Head of Unit Eero Ikonen, tel. +358 29 56 85711, +358 50 405 9148
Assistant Director Teemu Manninen, tel. +358 29 56 85710, +358 50 383 2610

Email: firstname.lastname(at)om.fi

Staff

Naarajärvi Prison employs approximately 50 staff members.

Activities

Most prisoners placed in Naarajärvi Prison are able to work and are serving either short-term sentences or the final part of long-term sentences.

The prison arranges work activities that enable prisoners to comply with their participation obligation and sentence plans. Prisoners can work in the car repair shop, metal industry, wood industry, laundry services and helmet repair for the Finnish Defence Forces, property and outdoor area maintenance, kitchen, cleaning, bedlinen maintenance and rehabilitative workshop.

Prisoners are offered vocational education and training, preparatory education and rehabilitative specialist services.

Information on free-time activities and their conditions is available in the information leaflet for prisoners (see below).

Visiting a prisoner

• Visits of prisoners placed in the accommodation wards are arranged at 10.30–12.00 and 12.30–14.00.
• Visits of prisoners placed in the travel cells and isolation cells are arranged at 9.15–10.00.

Accessibility of the facilities

The room for supervised visits is accessible, but the room for unsupervised visits is not. Please contact the prison staff for more information.

A designated disabled parking space is available in the visitor parking area. During winter, visitors with reduced mobility should be accompanied, as the slope from the parking area to the visiting facilities can be very slippery and uneven.

History

The history of Naarajärvi Prison dates back to the 1940s.

Prison rules

Prison rules for Naarajärvi Prison 24.2.2020 [pdf, 98.2 kB]

Information for prisoners

Information for prisoners in Naarajärvi Prison 10.11.2020 [pdf, 360.9 kB]

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