Country

Finland

Detention issue

Solitary confinement

FRA research findings

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Legal instruments & key provisions

Legal instrument Key provision
Imprisonment Act (Vankeuslaki/Fängelselag)A prisoner may be imposed a disciplinary punishment for a disciplinary infraction and solitary confinement for at most ten days is the last resort of forms of disciplinary punishment. Solitary confinement includes a restriction of the possession of property and contacts, the use of library, the following of radio and tv programmes as well as of hobbies and free-time activities.

NATIONAL PREVENTIVE MECHANISM RECOMMENDATIONS

Year Recommendation Report
2016The NPM did not consider it appropriate that prisoners are held in isolation cells merely for poor behaviour when they do not pose a concrete threat to order in the prison. The NPM pointed out that the conditions in isolation cells were inappropriate for the enforcement of disciplinary solitary confinement or the segregation of a prisoner pending the investigation of a disciplinary fraction. Report details