Nearly 600 drug cases at two prisons
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Iceland's prisons logged close to 600 drug cases over five years. Between 2020 and 2025, inmates were found to have used drugs in 525 cases at Litla-Hraun prison, with another 57 such cases at Hólmsheiði. Taken together, the figures point to considerable drug use behind Icelandic prison walls.
<img style="margin:0 1em 1em 0;" align="left" alt="Drug use in Icelandic prisons is considerable." src="https://c.arvakur.is/frimg/1/67/53/1675338A.jpg"/> Between 2020 and 2025, there were 525 cases in which inmates were found to have used drugs at Litla-Hraun prison, with a further 57 such cases reported at Hólmsheiði prison.
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