Danish Prisons
Valby Internment
Location:	Valby Valby ' is one of the 10 official districts of Copenhagen, Denmark. Located in the southwestern corner of Copenhagen Municipality, it is a heterogeneous mixture of different types of housing - including apartment blocks, terraced housing, areas with single-family houses and allotments, as well as remains... , Copenhagen Copenhagen Copenhagen is the capital and largest city of Denmark, with an urban population of 1,199,224 and a metropolitan population of 1,930,260 . With the completion of the transnational Øresund Bridge in 2000, Copenhagen has become the centre of the increasingly integrating Øresund Region...
Status:	Operational
Classification:	Internment Internment Internment is the imprisonment or confinement of people, commonly in large groups, without trial. The Oxford English Dictionary gives the meaning as: "The action of 'interning'; confinement within the limits of a country or place." Most modern usage is about individuals, and there is a distinction...
Capacity:	346
Opened:	December 7, 2009
Closed:
Managed by:	Police of Denmark Police of Denmark The police of Denmark is the interior part of the Danish legitimate force providers...

The Internment in Valby is constructed in a former beer depot in relationship with the state of emergency

State of emergency

A state of emergency is a governmental declaration that may suspend some normal functions of the executive, legislative and judicial powers, alert citizens to change their normal behaviours, or order government agencies to implement emergency preparedness plans. It can also be used as a rationale...

 laws introduced in relationship with the United Nations Climate Change Conference 2009 (COP15) December 2009

It is the primary detention used for climate activists, who will be arrested by the police. The police can detain people for 12 hours, which is called preemptive arrest

The procedure:

• 1) The detainees will be placed on benches in handcuffs until they will be called to be booked and searched.
• 2) Then they will be led to the cages (called dog cages in the Danish media) which can each accommodate 8-10 persons.
• 3) If police investigation leads to charges the detainee will be transferred to Vestre Fængsel
  Vestre Fængsel
  Vestre Fængsel is the main jail of the Danish capital, Copenhagen. Erected in 1895, it is Denmark's largest prison with a total capacity of 530 inmates...
  
  . Otherwise the detainee will be released after the 12 hour period since the arrest has passed.

There will be access to toilet and water. Food can be earned after 6 hours. Due to limited heating possibilities the detainees can be granted a blanket.

A common nickname in the press is the "Climate Prison"