Institutional design research indicates that natural landscape views can be restorative for confined populations in high-stress environments like prisons. Inmates share some vulnerabilities that may affect coping capacity, sometimes resulting in violence, signifying the value of investigating environmental features that may aid stress management. This thesis has three aims: to map landscapes surrounding Swedish prisons, to assess the association between landscape types and violent misconduct, and to evaluate how institutional stressors may mediate these relationships. Building on the growing body of prison research incorporating mapping methodologies and visual materials from environmental criminology, this study assessed landscape coverage around Swedish prisons using a systematic social observation tool applied remotely to satellite imagery from Google Earth Pro. Findings revealed that while most prisons were surrounded by vegetation, high-security facilities were more common in developed areas or near flat-cut grasslands. Consistent with previous research, vegetation was negatively associated with violent misconduct, while developed landscapes were positively correlated. A notable exception to this was flat-cut grasslands, which also had a positive relationship with violent misconduct. Unfortunately, findings on the mediating influence of institutional stressors lacked significance, potentially due to a limited sample size. Future research may address this by utilising mapping technologies and alternative sources of visual-spatial imagery. Further investigation into the relationship between flat-cut grass and violent misconduct in high-security prisons may also be valuable, along with insights into policymaker priorities during location scouting and the role of visual complexity in attention restoration.