Bergen Prison is located in the
Bergen kommune in
Vestland
Vestland is a county in Norway established on 1 January 2020. The county is located in Western Norway and it is centred around the city of Bergen, Norway's second largest city. The administrative centre of the county is the city of Bergen, where t ...
and is placed under the west Criminal Care department. The prison was opened in 1990 and has a capacity of 258 inmates.
Women and men serve together in Bergen prison, and there have been repeated revelations about female inmates
prostituting themselves in exchange for drugs.
References
External links
Official website
Buildings and structures in Bergen
Prisons in Norway
1990 establishments in Norway
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