Athens remand and the mainland closed prisons
Korydallos handles much of Attica’s high-profile and remand work. Women’s and psychiatric units are separate booking problems even when they share a postcode in conversation. Always match the court paper to the gate.
How Greece is carved up on this site
Greece (Ελλάδα) is a separate country folder — not a tab on a mixed European roster, and not a US state code. The analogue of a US state here is the first-level unit: Regions (periferies). Thirteen periferies. Attica is Athens/Korydallos geography. Central Macedonia is Thessaloniki. Crete and the South Aegean are island regions with real travel. The Republic of Cyprus is another country URL. Open a region page when you already know the slice of Greece; stay on this hub when you need the national rules, the official locator, and the list of those units.
Detention facilities under the ministry. Korydallos is the Attica name; Domokos and Malandrino are mainland coach rides. Women’s and psychiatric units are separate booking problems even when conversation shares a postcode. Facility articles under /greece/ are building guides (address, operator, how a visit is booked). They are not who-is-inside tables. If a region has few prison guides, that is coverage on this site, not an empty prison system. Assuming every Greek arrest is Korydallos, or mixing Nicosia Central Prisons (Cyprus) into this country.
Finding someone held in Greece
Greece does not publish a Google-style inmate spreadsheet. Hellenic Ministry of Citizen Protection — detention is the named official route (www.stokorakio.gr/). No public index. The lawyer or the καταστήμα κράτησης on the documents. Official URLs change — verify. Greece does not publish inmate lists. Confirm visits with the καταστήμα κράτησης. Official URLs change; verify before travel.
A US reader used to sheriff websites will type “Greece inmate search” and find nothing of the kind. That is the law. Court lists, Facebook groups and paid “worldwide jail” products are not Hellenic Ministry of Citizen Protection — detention. If the person was remanded overnight, reception can lag; if they were transferred out of the region you had in mind, the old desk is the wrong door. Use the region pages below to stop treating Athens as a synonym for the whole country.
Visits, money and staying in touch
Visiting in Greece is not a US-style walk-up. ID, authorisation, and the facility’s current instruction. Island regions add ferry or flight buffers. Money follows Greek facility rules. Where a facility guide on this site quotes hours, they were taken from that establishment’s official page — re-check the day before you travel. This country hub will not invent a national timetable.
Dress codes, dog searches and what you may carry are house rules. Money and remote contact, where they exist, go through the official national channel — not a personal transfer to a cellmate. ATH for Attica; SKG for Macedonia. Korydallos is a west-Athens problem, not Syntagma. Crete is not an afternoon from Domokos.
Travel, borders and the wrong-gate problem
ATH for Attica; SKG for Macedonia. Korydallos is a west-Athens problem, not Syntagma. Crete is not an afternoon from Domokos. Print the gate address from the official prison page, not from a maps pin that only names Athens or “Greek prison”. Neighbouring countries on this site have their own URLs; a cheaper flight into the next capital is not a visiting permit.
Assuming every Greek arrest is Korydallos, or mixing Nicosia Central Prisons (Cyprus) into this country. If you only know a town name, match it to a region first, then to a facility guide. Confusing one region of Greece with another is the most common way to book the wrong visit.
Regions (periferies) of Greece — each on its own URL
Greece is not mixed with the United States or with other European countries. Below is this country’s own first-level map (Regions (periferies)). Open a unit for a longer article on how custody, visits and travel actually work there. US readers looking for a county inmate spreadsheet will not find one: Greece does not publish that, and neither do we.