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Originally Posted by Platapus

So Finland does not have any "continued detention" rules like some other countries in Europe?

There is no "continued detention" rule because only way inmate service life sentence can get out is by receiving either presidential pardon (earlier only way) or court mandated pardon (which in my opinion shouldn't have been introduced). In practice its customary to pardon/parole inmate roughly after 15 years this varies somewhat to both directions. Problem is that finnish juridical system treats criminals with very soft hand. As result we get cases like this: Jammu Siltavuori

It have not always been that way. My father told me about case in 1960s where group of eight men was drunk and partying. Drunk brawl resulted in one of them dying. In court nobody was willing to tell who did it and therefore court was unable to determine which one of seven suspects was responsible. Instead of dismissing case court decided to share responsibility and everyone ended up serving 10 year sentence for homicide.

I don't say that latter case is optimal but its much better than what we have now!