Visits and Contact
Contact with prisoners in Sweden is possible by letter, telephone or through visits.
You can contact a prisoner by writing to them. Normally there’s no limit on the number of letters you can send. Most letters sent to and from prison are checked by prison staff.
Prisons cannot open letters from solicitors and courts except in special cases, eg if they suspect a letter isn’t really from a legal adviser.
Find a prisoner
If you don't know which prison your friend or relative is at, you can send an enveloped letter with the name and social security number of the prisoner, and put it in another envelope adressed to
Kriminalvården (Swedish Prison and Probation Service)
601 80 Norrköping
We will then forward the letter to the prisoner.
Telephone
The prisoner can only use a prison phone to call, and only to numbers pre-approved by prison management.
Visits
To be able to visit a prisoner you have to be pre-approved by prison management. They will check your criminal record, ties to known criminal networks and whether you are the victim of a crime committed by the prisoner. Each prison has its' own visiting schedule.
