Client Assessment Unit

The Client Assessment Unit prefers to be contacted primarily by email. We advise those who have been imposed a prison sentence or a community sanction or serve their sentence and our cooperation partners also over the telephone at specified times.

Contact

Postponement of enforcement

[email protected]

Application form and instructions for postponement of enforcement [pdf, 728.7 kt]

Use this form to apply for postponement of enforcement. Please read the instructions carefully and fill in all required parts. If you need help, you can ask advice by email or telephone.

The application form cannot be sent directly from the website, it has to be downloaded on a computer before sending the information.

Instructions for filling in and sending an application for postponement by email:

1. Download the application form to a computer. The browser you use may affect how the application form is downloaded on the computer.
2. Open the downloaded application form on the computer.
3. Fill in the required information.
4. Click the “Send” button at the bottom of the application form.
5. Write your email address in the window that opens. The application form is automatically attached to the email. Attach other required documents to the email.
6. Add the word Lykkäyshakemus (application for postponement) and your first and last name in the subject line of the email.
7. After sending the email, delete the form from the computer especially if you used a shared computer, for instance, in a library.

If you want to send confidential or sensitive documents to the Ministry of Justice, it is advisable to do so by using the secure email system of the Ministry of Justice (turvaviesti.om.fi) . Instructions for sending secure email (oikeusministerio.fi).

Other matters

[email protected]

Telephone advice

Tel. +358 50 4436 826
Opening hours
Monday–Thursday at 12–15
Friday at 12–14
Note: You cannot leave a message asking to be called back.

Postal address

Client Assessment Unit
Kuopio Branch Office
Itkonniemenkatu 2b
70100 Kuopio

You can contact the Client Assessment Unit if you have questions about, among others:

• postponement of enforcement
• sentence plans
  - preparing and reviewing the sentence plan in prison
  - matters concerning the assessment made before the sentence plan
• decisions concerning the placement in prison
  - placement in prison from freedom
  - placement decision made during the preparation of the sentence plan
• transfers
  - transfer to an open prison
  - transfer from a closed prison to another closed prison
  - transfer from an open prison to another open prison
• statements and assessments regarding release.

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