Österåker Prison

Österåker Prison

Location	Österåker Municipality, Sweden
Coordinates	59°31′20″N 18°17′20″E / 59.52222°N 18.28889°E / 59.52222; 18.28889Coordinates: 59°31′20″N 18°17′20″E / 59.52222°N 18.28889°E / 59.52222; 18.28889
Status	Operational
Security class	Class C
Capacity	146
Opened	1969
Managed by	Swedish Prison and Probation Service, Stockholm Region
Director	Gunilla Ternert

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.

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
• Tony Olsson – Convicted in 2000 of the 1999 murder of two Swedish police officers in the town of Malexander.
• 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 met with roaring approval from the inmates.

External links

• Österåker - Kriminalvården (Swedish)