Kaunas Prison

[1] Most prisoners are there under temporary arrest awaiting court decisions or transfers to other detention facilities.

[2] The Kaunas Prison was completed in 1864,[3] just after the January Uprising during the times of the Russian Empire.

During World War II, in June 1941, during the German invasion of the Soviet Union, the majority of the convicts in Kaunas Prison were Jewish.

Due to lack of food or medical care, the exhausting work and the beatings, the prisoner mortality rate was rather high.

Due to the lack of spaces for individuals under temporary arrest to await court decisions and transfers to other detention sites, Kaunas Remand Prison was to be reconstructed under the resolution adopted by the Government of Lithuania in 1993.