PARRHESIA at Navnløs Fengsel

Project Realisation Navnløs Fengsel
October 2023

Navnløs Fengsel, Undisclosed Location, Norway
(Disclaimer: In compliance with General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) from the European Union as well as Norway, the name of the participating prison has been fictionalised.)

For the map-based part of the homepage, the geolocation for the prison has been fictionalised and assigned to the Oslo location of Kriminalomsorgen, the Norwegian Correctional Services.

Navnløs Prison is located in Norway and is a low-security prison for women.

General Information - Navnløs Prison

The facility is for female inmates and has an average capacity of 40 beds. The prison has single, double, and quadruple rooms. Every prison in Norway has a duty of participation (labour, education, etc.). To the extent possible, it is adapted to the needs of the inmates. The prison also has a drug and alcohol rehabilitation unit, library, fitness room, health service, priest, school, reintegration coordinator, and NAV (Norwegian social services) employee.

General Information - Kriminalomsorgen

Norway has 53 prisons of high and low security. The relatively high number of establishments (population dense: Norway has an area of 385,207 km² (including Svalbard). Due to the relatively low population of about 5 million, the population density is about 13 per km² (excluding Svalbard: 16 per km²).