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Ila Detention and Security Prison

Prison in Bærum, Norway

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 2, 2025
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Ila prison and detention center is a high security prison in Ila in Bærum municipality in Akershus county, outside the capital city of Oslo in Norway. It is the national preventive detention facility for men in Norway, i.e. the prison for men serving preventive detention (forvaring), Norway's maximum penalty. Ila generally houses the most dangerous criminals in Norway, who are convicted of violent and sexual crimes.

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“Ila Detention and Security Prison” enters the record as prison in Bærum, Norway. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Detention, Security and Prison can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from “Ila Detention and Security Prison” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.