Email can now be sent to prisoners in closed prisons

At present, each closed prison has an email address where the prisoners of that prison can be sent email. The aim of the reform is to enable relatives and other people outside the prison to contact the prisoners easier and faster.

Tuuli Siiskonen, who runs the electronic services project at the Criminal Sanctions Agency, points out that the use of electronic communication such as email is important in everyday life.
– Operating in a digital environment is a civic skill.

The aim is to increase electronic services in the prisons also in other respects in the next few years by, among other things, allowing prisoners a limited access to the internet.

Email to a prisoner can be sent to the following address: vankiposti.[name of the prison without square brackets]@om.fi
(e.g. [email protected] or [email protected]).

The prisoner's first and last name have to be written in the subject line of the email message and the sender's own first and last name in the message field itself so that the prisoner knows who sent the message.

For information security reasons, the system deletes all attachments and pictures of the messages. The prisoner will receive nothing but the email message.

If, for instance, an attorney or other legal counsel wants to send email to a prisoner, it has to be taken into account that the prisoner cannot read the message on a computer monitor. The prison staff delivers the message to the prisoner. The counsels have to assess themselves whether they can send their message by email.

If the email message is not compliant with instructions, it is not forwarded to the prisoner.

Further information: Project Manager Tuuli Siiskonen tel. +358 50 384 9899 and Head of Communications Pilvi Isotalus tel. +358 50 331 0067