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Forest Prison
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Capacity
57
Current population
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Occupancy
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Year opened
1873
Operational
Figures from official sources · verified 28 May 2026 · methodology
Facility profile
Population held
Mixed/unknown
Opened
1873
Region
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Security level
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Death-row facility
No
Conditions
No conditions summary available yet.
Visiting
No visiting information available.
Mailing
No mailing information available.
Practical info
Contact the operator's website for inmate-specific procedures.
Known issues
No major issues documented in our database.
Notable inmates
- Junior Kabunda1990 · serial killer
Junior Pashi Kabunda (born 1991), known as The Monster of Brussels, is a Belgian criminal and serial killer.
- Genevieve Lhermitte1966–2023 · homemaker
Geneviève Lhermitte (16 November 1966 â 28 February 2023) was a Belgian woman who killed all five of her children on 28 February 2007.
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Marie Alexandrine Becker1879–1942 · serial killerMarie Alexandrine Becker (née Petitjean; 14 July 1879 â 11 June 1942), nicknamed The Black Widow, was a Belgian serial killer who was sentenced to death for poisoning eleven people between 1933 and 1936, and attempting to poison five others.
- Maurits Liesenborghs1889–1946 · journalist
Source: Wikidata + Wikipedia.
Contact & address
Conditions Risk Score
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Related facilities
Same country, matched on type + security level where possible.
Compared to other facilities in Belgium
78 peersCapacity (beds)this: 57 · peers avg: 277 (79%)
Data completeness
34%How many of our profile fields are populated. We surface this so families and researchers know the limits.
Sources
- OpenStreetMap — OpenStreetMap Contributors
- Wikidata — Wikimedia Foundation
- Wikidata (Q109042034)
- Wikimedia Commons
- See /data-sources for our overall methodology.
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APA
World Prisons. (2026). Forest Prison. Retrieved July 21, 2026, from https://worldprisons.com/prisons/forest-prison
Chicago
"Forest Prison." World Prisons. Accessed July 21, 2026. https://worldprisons.com/prisons/forest-prison.
BibTeX
@misc{worldprisons-forest-prison,
author = {{World Prisons}},
title = {Forest Prison},
year = {2026},
url = {https://worldprisons.com/prisons/forest-prison},
urldate = {2026-07-21}
}