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Österåker Prison

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Status
  
Operational

Phone
  
+46 8 559 372 00

Director
  
Gunilla Ternert

Security class
  
Class 2

Capacity
  
93

Opened
  
1969

Österåker Prison

Location
  
Österåker Municipality, Sweden

Managed by
  
Swedish Prison and Probation Service, Stockholm Region

Address
  
Össebyvägen 80, 184 32 Åkersberga, Sweden

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The Österåker Prison (Swedish: Anstalten Österåker, commonly known as Österåkersanstalten) is a prison located in Österåker Municipality, thirty kilometers north of Stockholm, Sweden. It is a Class C-security prison with a capacity for 146 inmates. The facility also contains a remand prison with the capacity for 80 inmates.

Contents

The Österåker Prison was built in 1969 as a replacement for the Långholmen Prison in Stockholm. Since 1976 the prison is concentrated on inmates with different types of abuse problems.

Notable inmates

  • Jan Guillou - Famous Swedish author, convicted of espionage.
  • Christer Pettersson - One of the suspected assassins of Olof Palme, Swedish Prime Minister
  • Oussama Kassir - Convicted on illegal firearm charges in Sweden, later on terrorism charges in the USA.
  • Trivia

  • American country singer Johnny Cash performed at the prison on October 3, 1972. The live album På Österåker ("At Österåker"), recorded out of this concert, was released in 1973. Between the songs Cash can be heard speaking Swedish, which is met with roaring approval from the inmates.
  • References

    Österåker Prison Wikipedia