Contact a prisoner

According to law, information concerning an individual prisoner is confidential. Thus, the authorities of the criminal sanctions field cannot give information on the placement institution or the judgement of an adult person serving a sentence, for example, to a relative of that person.

Mail or email to a sentenced offender can be sent to his or her placement institution.

Contact information of prisons

Instructions on the use of client email in prisons for people outside the prison

If the placement institution is not known

If you want to contact a prisoner, put a message in a closed envelope, on which there is the prisoner’s name and preferably date of birth as well as the contact information of the sender, and send it to the Prison and Probation Service of Finland (address: Lintulahdenkatu 5 , 00530 Helsinki, Finland) or directly to the prison, where the letters will be forwarded to the recipient.

If the prisoner so wishes, he or she can contact the sender of the message by phone or mail or arrange a visit.