[2] During the German occupation of Lithuania, the prison was one of the sub-camps of the Kaunas concentration camp and the location of several mass executions of inmates.

[6] About a hundred tumuli that date to the 9–11th centuries are located about 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) east of the village.

[7] Bronius Kviklys wrote in his work Mūsų Lietuva that Pravieniškės was first mentioned in 1613, but this information cannot be verified.

[4] The railroad culvert built across the Praviena stream is recognized as an engineering monument of heritage.

[4] In 1963, school children accidentally found remains of a Soviet airplane in a nearby forest.

It depicts two golden Eurasian pygmy owls, which is listed as an endangered species in Lithuania, separated by a silver river.

In February 1996, the school was named in memory of Stasys Tijūnaitis [lt], teacher and member of the Constituent Assembly of Lithuania.

[15] Around 1930, commercially viable peat deposits that could be used for fuel were discovered about 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) north of the original settlement.

An area of about 60 hectares (150 acres) was acquired by Kaunas Prison and a forced labour camp was established to extract the peat and process timber.

[3] After the Soviet occupation of Lithuania in 1940, Dimitravas forced labour camp was moved to Pravieniškės.

[23] Two more sections were built in 1968 (for first-time offenders) and in 1973 (medical and labor dispensary [ru] for forced treatment for drug addiction and alcoholism).

[25] When Lukiškės Prison was closed in 2019, inmates serving life sentences were moved to Pravieniškės.