The State Prison in Vridsløselille

The state prison in Vridsløselille (Danish: Statsfængslet i Vridsløselille ) is a detention center with a closed prison, which is located in the town of Albert Albert Lund Lund Municipality, which is part of the Capital Region. The detention center, and the town is about 14 km west from the Copenhagen suburb Vestegnen. The prison was named after the former village Vridsløselille, which now belongs to the small town of Albert Lund.

The prison is used to house offenders in closed prisons and prison on remand. It has a capacity of 241 inmates. In 2012 it was occupied by 221 prisoners. In the detention center, only men are from an age limit of 23 years, originating from the Danish island of Zealand or the Sjælland region, accommodated. The majority of inmates is serving long prison sentences, with about 40 percent of the inmates have to serve eight years imprisonment or more.

History

In 1859 the prison was taken to improve the accommodation of convicted prisoners to the " Philadelphia " system in operation. This included a full-day total isolation of the prisoners, with the aim to give them time to repent of their sins and to reconcile with God; also should be as a possible negative impact of inmates who had committed serious offenses, hintan be held.

The whole sentence was therefore served by the prisoners in a prison cell, where they were staying well at work and at leisure. When the prisoners moved outside their cells, they had to wear a mask, so that they remained undetected and protected from other prisoners. The mask penalty was maintained until 1924. Thereafter, until the Second World War was wearing a mask on a voluntary basis.

Every conversation and any contact between the prisoners was forbidden. In school, the prison and in the prison church, it was impossible to see each other them themselves. We were informed on the corresponding space into several small bays, making it only the teachers, priests, and the supervisory staff was possible to overlook the prisoners.

The isolation principle in the prison of Vridsløselille was strongly maintained, especially in the 19th century.

Prison escape

The most spectacular escape from the prison Vridsløselille took place on 27 August 1995 when a smugglers tore a wheel loader, a 13-meter- wide hole in the perimeter wall of the state prison. Behind this flight was the imprisoned end " crime lord " Lars Hitchinson Hansen, also known as the "White Lars" ( " Hvide Lars" ). A total of 13 prisoners managed to escape.

Olsenbande

The general public in Denmark and beyond the state prison made ​​famous by the Olsen Gang films by Erik Balling and Henning Bah. The films in this series began and ended mostly outside the main entrance of the prison. 2004 was renamed after the death of Ove Sprogøe, the actor of the eponymous Egon Olsen, the street outside the prison officially in " Egon Olsen vej " ( Egon Olsen way ).