Vestre Prison (Danish: Vestre Fængsel) is the main jail of the Danish capital, Copenhagen. Erected in 1895, it is Denmark's largest prison with a total capacity of 530 inmates. It primarily houses pretrial detainees, not convicted felons.
In his 2015 breakthrough single Tyveri, Hasan Shah sings "Hvis jeg havner i Vestre Fængsel..." (English: If I end up in Vestre Fængsel...").
French author Louis-Ferdinand Céline spent more than one year at Vestre starting in 1946 and tell of his ordeal in book 1 of Féerie pour une autre fois .
References
^"Vestre Fængsel". danskefilm.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 9 October 2017.
^"Film 6 Olsen Bandens sidste bedrifter / Der (voraussichtlich) letzte Streich der Olsenbande". olsenbande-homepage.de (in German). Retrieved 5 October 2017.
^"Vestre Fængsel" (in Danish). DRde. Retrieved 5 October 2017.
External links
Official website of the Copenhagen jails (in Danish)
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