Scandinavian justice: Murderer walks out of 'open' prison, doesn't bother to return

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Picked this up from another forum:
"Woman convicted of two homicides did not return to open prison of Vanaja in Hämeenlinna. Terhi Tervashonka has been missing for nearly two weeks.

Woman has already atoned for slicing homicide of 1998. She got her latest sentence in 2007 by killing man with a billhook.

Tervashonka would have been let out already next year. She got ten year sentence from the latest homicide, but will have to sit only half of her sentence.

Even though the homicide of 2007 was not her first, court judged her as first timer, because three years had passed from her last sentence.

Tervashonka lived in open prison, and worked as gardener in the city. She did not return to prison using public transport. "

http://www.hs.fi/kotimaa/artikkeli/V.../1135268233908

She was 17 years old in the first homicide, and worked with two another wackos. They first tortured the victim, 23 year old man, then sliced him up and ate him in a satanist ritual.

http://www.iltalehti.fi/uutiset/2011...48986_uu.shtml

"According to police. "There is no group searching for her, but if she turns in normal checks, we will capture her. We have no idea of her whereabouts." Because she is in open prison, she cannot be dangerous."

http://www.iltasanomat.fi/kotimaa/pa...404956287.html

Ok, our justice system seriously sucks monkey balls. Government is incapable of handling criminals. Not surprised if civilians start to take justice in their own hands soon (which has already happened few times). This is third such case ive read about in the past month. Note, that police didnt think they should inform people about dangerous prisoner before she had been missing for two weeks.
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From the media...

Terhi Tervashonka, woman convicted for two homicides, has failed to return to the Vanaja open prison in southern Finland’s Hämeenlinna, according to reports by Finnish tabloid Ilta-Sanomat on Tuesday.

Tervashonka has been missing for almost two weeks, according to the paper.

The Criminal Sanctions Agency told that Tervashonka worked as a park worker in Hämeenlinna before her escape.

Having already served a sentence for the so-called “dump site murder” in 1998, Tervashonka was sentenced for killing a man with a billhook in 2007.
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http://www.helsinkitimes.fi/htimes/...or-two-homicides-escapes-from-prison-is-.html
 
Seems a regular occurrence :erm:

Convicted triple murderer Juha Valjakkala, who currently goes under the name Nikita Joakim Fouganthine, escaped from the Hamina Work Colony run by the Finnish Prison Service in the south coast city of Hamina on Monday night.
Valjakkala was last seen at the minimum security penal facility at roll call Monday evening at about 10:00 PM.
His absence was noticed at eight in the morning, on Tuesday, which means that the escapee could have a head start of up to ten hours.
Hamina police think that Valjakkala will probably try to get to Sweden.
Lea Lehtonen, the director of the facility, believes that Valjakkala had simply walked out a door. She said that the doors are locked at night, but that they are easy to get open if someone wants to leave.
She noted that it is fairly easy to leave the minimum security facility. No other inmates escaped with him.

The Hamina Work Colony is located about one kilometre from the centre of Hamina. The inmates often work outside the institution.
Esa Vesterbacka, director-general of the Prison Service, does not feel that Valjakkala is especially dangerous.
"He has undergone a security assessment, in which he was seen fit to be placed in an open prison. However, Valjakkala is unpredictable, as this situation shows", Vesterbacka notes.
Erkki Mäkelä of the Hamina Police says that it is difficult to say what Valjakkala’s state of mind might be.
"He has been moving among civilians without supervision before. However, he must have some reason for leaving without permission."

Valjakkala has been on furlough at least twice this autumn. At least once this took place without supervision.
Valjakkala was given a life sentence for murder in Sweden in 1989. He had killed three members of the same family at a cemetery in Åmsele in the north of Sweden in 1988.
He was transferred to Finland to serve his sentence.
Valjakkala has applied for clemency from the President several times. In January the Supreme Court recommended that he be pardoned. Esa Vesterbacka says that it is likely that the escape will delay his possible release.

Swedish police, customs, and border patrol are on alert in case Valjakkala enters the country.
"As he has been given a lifetime deportation from Sweden, he is to be held if he is seen", says Varg Gyllander, spokesperson for the Swedish Central Criminal Police.
News of Valjakkala’s flight has sparked anguish in Åmsele. "Naturally this causes disquiet among some residents, especially among the generation that was here when the tragedy took place", said Pastor Arvid Dsinnejs to Sweden’s TT news agency.

On Wednesday a spokesman for Finland's National Bureau of investigation said that Valjakkala is believed to still be in Finland.
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Ok, our justice system seriously sucks monkey balls. Government is incapable of handling criminals. Not surprised if civilians start to take justice in their own hands soon (which has already happened few times). This is third such case ive read about in the past month. Note, that police didnt think they should inform people about dangerous prisoner before she had been missing for two weeks.
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We have a government exchange program with Finlanders/Finn/Finish?

Ok, our justice system seriously sucks monkey balls. [x]
Government is incapable of handling criminals. [x]
Not surprised if civilians start to take justice in their own hands soon (which has already happened few times). [x]

It's SA with more snow :D
 
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S7wede said:
To whom are you asking this question? The OP did not ask it and neither did any poster on this forum. The statement was made on another forum.
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Seriously does that not read like a post from a South African citizen about SA?
 
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