Ila detention and custody facility

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Ila fengsel og forvaringsanstalt - entrance gate
View of the prison complex

The Ila Detention and Custody Institution (officially Norwegian Ila fengsel og forvaringsanstalt ) is a prison in the Norwegian municipality of Bærum in the province of Viken a few kilometers outside the capital Oslo .

history

The building complex, which is now used as the Ila prison and custody facility, was largely built between 1937 and 1939 and completed in 1940. In the same year Norway was occupied and occupied by the German Reich , which is why the prison buildings were used as a concentration camp , the so-called Grini police prisoner camp, in the first years of their existence . It mainly served to accommodate political opponents of the National Socialists in Norway. During the time as a concentration camp, over 20,000 prisoners were held in Grini, most of them Norwegian citizens.

After the Second World War and the liberation of Norway, the name of the prison was changed to Ilebu and the institution was subsequently used to detain and detain war criminals and high traitors . Since 1951, the monitoring unit is used of Ila Prison for those to preventive detention were sentenced under Norwegian law. From 1976 to 2000, the prison's official name was subsequently Ila landsfengsel og sikringsanstalt , which in German means something like "Ila state prison and security institution".

Today's conception

After extensive reconstruction of the interior of the prison, a total of 124 male prisoners can currently be accommodated in twelve wings or departments. Some of Norway's most dangerous criminals, including violent criminals and sex offenders, are serving their often multi-year sentences in Ila prison. Until he was transferred to the prison in Skien (Skien Fengsel), the detainees also included the assassin Anders Behring Breivik , who murdered a total of 77 people in the terrorist attacks on July 22, 2011 and received a maximum sentence of 21 on August 24, 2012 Years of imprisonment and subsequent preventive detention.

Web links

Commons : Ila Detention and Custody Institution  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ History of Ila Prison - Kriminalomsorgens presentasjon av Ila fengsel , in Norwegian.
  2. ↑ Ingrid Hagen: Oppgjørets time; Om landsvikoppgjørets skyggesider. Spartacus forlag, Oslo 2009, ISBN 978-82-430-0502-0 , p. 119 in Norwegian.
  3. ↑ Breivik flyttes from Ila fengsel NRK, August 5, 2013

Coordinates: 59 ° 57 '19.7 "  N , 10 ° 35' 2.7"  E