Send a letter to someone in a Swedish prison or remand prison

Swedish facilities sort incoming mail by facility name before anything else, so the envelope needs more than a street address. Four lines, in this exact order, is what the Prison and Probation Service expects.

Do not add SWEDEN as a last line when you order through us. The letter is printed and posted inside Sweden, so it travels as domestic mail and an extra country line only confuses sorting.

Never use the visiting address you find on a map. Most facilities receive mail at a PO box, and letters sent to the visiting address are frequently delayed or returned.

Sweden uses two different kinds of facility, and the difference decides how your letter is handled. An anstalt is a prison where a person serves a sentence after conviction. A häkte is a remand prison holding people who are arrested or awaiting trial.

Mail to a remand prison is far more likely to be screened by a prosecutor, because restrictions are common while an investigation is ongoing. Mail to a prison is screened by the facility itself under the Prisons Act.

If you do not know where the person is held, call Kriminalvården on +46 77 228 08 00. They will not always tell you, but the person themselves, their lawyer or a family member usually can.

Assume yes. The Prisons Act (fängelselagen 2010:610) and the Detention Act (häkteslagen 2010:611) both allow incoming mail to be examined. In practice a letter is opened and checked for prohibited items, and at high-security facilities it is also read.

Letters to and from a lawyer, a Swedish public authority or an international body such as the European Court of Human Rights are protected and may not be read. If that applies, state who the sender is clearly on the envelope.

You may write in English or any other language. Staff can ask for a translation, which adds a few days, but a letter is never rejected simply for not being in Swedish.

Send plain paper. Anything else risks being removed at screening, and the person is not always told what was taken out.

Money is sent to an inmate's account through Kriminalvården, never in an envelope. Ask the facility how, because routines differ.

Two separate timelines add up. First the postal transit: a standard letter takes 3–4 working days with PostNord, an express letter 1–2. Then the facility's own screening, normally one to a few days, and longer where restrictions apply.

Orders paid before 11:45 on a weekday are handed to PostNord the same day. If the person is transferred while your letter is in transit, the letter is usually returned rather than forwarded.

Yes, and this is the main reason to use us. You order from anywhere in the world and pay by card in Swedish kronor. The letter is printed and posted inside Sweden, so it never goes through international transit and never sits in a customs queue.

You need no Swedish printer, no Swedish stamps and no Swedish address of your own. You do need a sender address on the letter, because a facility that cannot identify the sender may hold the letter back.

We publish a page for each facility with its verified postal address, its security class and what screening to expect there. There are 49 prisons and 42 remand prisons in the country.

No printer, no envelope and no trip to a postbox. Everything happens in the browser and the letter is handed to PostNord in Sweden by us.