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Prisons/Correctional Institutes of the Megaverse(Random Roll

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Prisons/Correctional Institutes of the Megaverse

“Welcome to New New Newest Alcatraz, the most escape-proof prison in the Three Galaxies, if not the Megaverse! Forget all about seeing the outside world, you criminal scum, because, barring some legal miracle, word of god, or a hand-signed pardon from the Cosmic Forge, this will be your only home for the rest of your lives!”

“Hey, got another load of frozen pirates from Sarex sector!”
“Lemme guess, the arrest report has an Officer Lenziler as the arresting officer?”
“Hey, how’d you know?”
“Because that’s all we get here down in the IceBox. In fact, I think this facility was set up specially to handle all the pirates Officer Lenziler has been responsible for capturing. Just put ‘em with the rest of the popsicles “
“But--- there’s three holding blocs to this facility, with a hundred cryo-cells each, and you’re constructing another new wing!”
“TWO new wings, actually. Somebody apparently has expectations of Officer Lenziler’s future activities. Yep, somebody felt that his arrests warranted -special-treatment, so we’re not merging them into the regular prison system. So just take this batch down to Bloc Three and stack them with the rest.”


For those megaversal adventurers who skirt the law and fail, there’s a good chance they’ll become acquainted with the local penitentiary system(if the local law doesn’t just have immediate executions). Unless they somehow get bailed out on a technicality or they get broken out, spending some time in goal is very likely in their future.
Just in case you’re sentenced to time behind bars, visiting somebody you know behind bars, or planning a rescue from behind bars, here’s some random roll prison tables:

A. Type of Prison:
B. Management
C. Outside Supervision
D. Size of Facility
E. Location
F. Alignment of Staff
G. Philosophy of the Penal System
H. Rehabilitation Programs
I. Criminal Activities in the Prison
J. Internal Security
K. External Security
L. Medical
M. Conditions
N. Stability
(Optional)Prison Population
(Optional) Special Security Features
(Optional) Alternate Ways Out

A. Type of Prison:
“Our good Kreeghor hosts want us to build a bridge across this ocean. Why? Because. Just because. And that leaves us with limited choices....we can go forward, as our guards motivate us to go, we can try to go back along the completed span, but that takes us straight back into Kreeghor hands and they send anybody back up here, or we can take our chances and go over the side...The oldest workers on this project haven’t seen land on over twenty years, and given some of the fish I’ve seen down there, swimming for it’s a certain death sentence, more so than running against the guards’ guns. ”

What is the general type of prison facility?

01-10% Detention Center---What would have been called, before WW2’s atrocities, a ‘concentration camp’. It’s where large numbers of suspects or social undesirables are gathered, without formal sentence, to be held ‘for their own protection’. Detention facilities typically accept and hold a wide range of inmates, including entire families(though they may be segregated). Inmates are typically held until they are processed out to other facilities on more specific charges. +15% to Size.
11-25% Minimum Security Facility---This is a facility for low-risk misdemeanor criminals, most juvenile offenders, and low-end white-collar crimes . ‘Boot camp’ prisons are typically of this type. -25% to Interenal and External Security, +10% to Rehabilitation.
26-50% Correctional Institution---This is your average prison for more serious crimes, repeat offenders, larcenists, and manslaughter criminals. +10% to Internal and External Security
51-60% Work Camp---- This is typically a remotely-located camp where the inmates are expected to engage in hard labor, such as strip-mining. lumbering or building a railroad or roadway. In most cases, regimes that establish work camps don’t care if the prisoners drop dead in the process; either than, or they’re too exhausted or crippled upon release to cause additional problems. +20% to Location and Internal Security,
61-85% Maximum Security Prison----Maxsec facilities are for hardened criminals, the worst of the worst; serial murderers, rapists, terrorists, copkillers, and the like. +20% to Location, +15% Internal Security, +15% to External Security.
86-95% Mental Institution(Criminally Insane)---- This is a mental hospital set up for handling patients too disturbed for incarceration with the general prison population. Mental Institutions treat criminal behavior as health problems, rather than social misbehavior, and inmates can thus expect to be subjected to various physical therapies and intense psychological consoling(or medical experimentation/lobotomization/brainwashing). +10% to Rehabilitation.
96-00% Death Row--- This maximum security facility is set aside as a temporary detention center for those who have been condemned to death. However, depending on the local legal system, inmates may spend years, possibly decades, awaiting execution. +25% to Internal Security, +15% to External Security, -30% to Rehabilitation.

B. Management
“I must protest that my client, who has been convicted of stealing from Naruni Enterprises, is being sentenced to incarceration in a facility run by a contracted subsidiary of Naruni Enterprises-”

Under whose authority is the prison administered and operated? Economics and politics may have major influences on conditions inside the prison. There’s differences, for example, between a facility run by the Luftwaffe and one run by the Gestapo.

01-25% Private Contractor---This is a private corporation or organization that has been contracted to handle penal duties. While they are expected to meet certain criteria of the government, they may have a great deal of leeway on HOW they meet those criteria. Religiously-oriented groups, for example, may use their contracts to evangelize to the prison population. Some private contractors of this type have been accused of running ‘country club’ prisons for well-heeled convicts. On the other hand, this may be an outside party quietly hired by the government to allow for the deniable mistreatment of inmates.
26-80% Civil Government---The civilian (or what passes for one) government runs the prison through an arm of the judiciary system. This could be a publicly known Corrections Department or a more shadowy secret police organization.
81-00% Military---The military runs the prison, typically for holding prisoners of ‘police actions’, terrorists, POWs, war criminals, and political dissidents. The military may regard this duty as a distraction and unwelcome diversion of their resources, or they may see it as part of their duty to their country to protect it from even fallen enemies. +15% to Internal and External Security.


C. Outside Supervision
“Save your breath calling for a lawyer, slimeball; ain’t nobody know or care you’re in here, or get you out.”

Who monitors the conditions in the prison? This gives an indication of how often and thoroughly the welfare of the prisoners is checked, or how the administration is carrying out the mandated policies of the prison system. This isn’t always a good thing; as a prison that is treating non-human prisoners well, might be investigated by a private human-supremacist group that will finger the liberal wardens to the fascist central government.

01-15% Nobody----The wardens and staff may be private contractors or public officials, but they, and they alone, have any say on what goes on behind the walls.
16-30% Local Authorities----This means local county or community law enforcement, who may or may not be in cahoots with the wardens.
31-70% State Commission Inspectors---The larger polity in which the prison is located regularly sends inspectors to check on conditions at the prison. This could be a mere formality or a serious effort to see that regulations are followed.
71-95% Private Watchdogs----The prison is monitored by private organizations like the Southern Poverty Law Center or the Orc Legal Defense Fund, and they have managed to wrangle visiting rights and the ability to provide limited advocacy services.
96-00% Extra-Governmental Organization-----An organization, or organizations, with international influence, like the United Nations or Amnesty International, have acquired the authority to check up on the prison and provide advocacy for any prisoners wanting to make appeals with regards to conditions.


D. Size of Facility
“---from orbit, I thought this place was the planet’s biggest CITY. You’re telling me it’s really the planetary PRISON? Just how many actual free citizens live outside the fence?!”

How large is the prison facility?

01-10% Lock-Up---This is little bigger than a town jail or county holding tank. Not much more than a dozen(2d6) prisoners can be held at any one time. -40% on the Criminal Activities table(the inmate population is so small)
11-25% Small---A small facility with housing for 4d6x10 inmates
26-75% Medium----Holds 2d4x100 prisoners.
76-90% Large---The facility holds 1d4x1,000 inmates.
91-00% Massive---This is a prison the size of a city or larger(up to planetary penal colony), with room for 1d10x1,000+ prisoners. +20% to Location.

E. Location

“Well, on the outside it looks like fifty yard run from the walls to the fence...but there’s the kaiju conservation area past that between us and the town...I ain’t heard of anybody getting past the ‘zillas...”

Where is the prison located with regards to other population centers?

01-20% Urban---The prison is right in a heavily built-up area. Escapees may be able to quickly find cover and transportation(especially if they have help that can come up right to the facility), but also more witnesses may be available to see and report them.
21-75% Rural---The prison lies in an agricultural region or undeveloped countryside with a low population density.
76-90% Isolated---Whether it’s in the middle of broad plains or on an island(or anchored hulk) off a populated coast, the prison is not easily approached or gotten away from without being exposed.
91-00% Virtually Inaccessible---The prison is difficult for even its builders to get to. This could be deep desert, an island surrounded by dangerous waters, an airless asteroid, or a pocket dimension.

F. Alignment of Staff
“...thirty billion jails in this corner of the megaverse and we keep landing in the ones run by demonically-possessed, or demonically-born, wardens. WHY? Why are we so statistically unlucky?”

The overall Alignment of the staff can determine the treatment of the prisoners and the degree of criminal activity going on in the facility. Just how susceptible to corruption is the staff?

01-05% Diabolical----Diabolical prison staff see the prison as their own macabre hunting ground, and see nothing wrong about robbing and torturing inmates for their own entertainment. +25% to Criminal Activity
06-15% Miscreant---Miscreant guards and administrators see the prison as a profit-making machine for themselves, and they will regularly engage in chiseling the inmates for bribes, embezzle from the operating expenses and resources, and blackmail the friends of inmates for access. +15% to Criminal Activity
16-25% Aberrant---Aberrant prison staff hold to a rigorous code of behavior that typically mandates harsh punishments. Aberrant staffers may engage in trades and services with inmates that benefit the guards, but also serve to placate the inmates and give the guards more leverage in handling the rest of the prison population. There are some lines they will not cross, however, and unnecessary brutality is regarded with scorn. +10% to Criminal Activity
26-40% Anarchist---Anarchist prison staffers regularly accept bribes for minor misdeeds, but draw the line at anything that could threaten their own safety.
41-60% Unprincipled---Staffers of this alignment aren’t above taking minor bribes for smuggling in contraband(like tobacco or booze), or granting inmates minor regulation-bending favors like extra time with lovers. -10% to Criminal Activity.
61-90% Scrupulous----Staffers of this alignment will behave by the book with regards to how they handle prisoners, but aren’t afraid to put a nightstick where it can cause enough pain for some ‘attitude adjustment’. -15% to Criminal Activity.
91-00% Principled---The staff are idealistic and by the book. -30% to Criminal Activities(at least on the part of the staff). +5% to Rehabilitation.


G. Philosophy of the Penal System

“I’ve got five hundred perps on VR braindance and slow-metab biostasis. I can tweak their subjective time experience to sweep through their sentences in what seems like a week to them, or I can draw it out to two hundred years, but objectively society’s free of having to deal with these dregs for at least thirty years.”

What is the overall attitude of the prison(and the prison system) towards the inmates? At least on paper, what is the guiding belief with regards to incarceration?

01-15% Vengeance----Criminals have broken the law and offended society; they MUST be PUNISHED. Those who have inflicted suffering on others, either by depriving them of property or lives, must suffer themselves. Inmates have little or NO rights under this philosophy, and have no right to complain about their treatment under the penal code. In many cases, driving inmates to suicide is considered a GOOD outcome; reducing head count and eliminating any further problems. The downside of this is that such treatment may make the wrongly incarcerated and minor criminals into hardened ones.
16-40% Containment----Criminals must be kept away from society, like toxic waste. ‘’Lock’em up and throw away the key’ is the oft-voiced form of this philosophy. The mild form of this philosophy contends that criminals will learn to avoid future criminal behavior by the pain of losing all the benefits of it and the rights of free citizens. The extreme form of this amounts to sensory deprivation, with inmates losing touch with the changing world outside the fence, and thus must resort to familiar criminal behaviors if and when released. Societies with advanced technology may take a more literal approach to containment and put inmates away in stasis storage or Virtual Reality pods for the duration of their sentences. +5% to Rehabilitation Programs
41-60% Utilization----Criminals are a resource, and they can assist on defraying the cost of their own imprisonment by being put the work, typically doing tasks too tedious and low-paying for regular free citizens to carry out, or else too dangerous to be profitable under normal safety guidelines. In the worst case scenarios, the inmates are essentially slave labor, treated like expendable robots, doing deadly life-endangering work like cleaning up nuclear waste dumbs or working with deadly chemicals. In more enlightened societies, the convicts perform work that benefits their victims, pays off their debts, improves society, and helps rehabilitate them by teaching them useful life skills. Some of the more technologically advanced societies may physically alter convicts for the purpose of better serving the community, such as making them into super-regenerating organ tissue growing media, or plugging them into telepresence rigs to mine distant worlds. Automatically gets ‘Labor’ as a Rehabilitation option.
61 -97% Rehabilitation---Criminal behavior can be mitigated and even hardened criminals made into rational and productive members of society. Even if an inmate is going to spend the rest of their lives behind bars, every effort must be made to convince them of the wrongness of their crimes and make them better people in the process. The downside of this is that lifers or the insane, upon realizing the true wretchedness of their crimes, may suffer more psychologically for being unable to do anything more positive with their lives(or, phrased another way, if you cure an insane criminal such that they recognize that their crimes are so horrible, they may go insane contemplating them). Some of the more extreme cultures, however, may offer such criminals rehabilitation means such as organ donation in lieu of life sentences, or voluntary servitude bonding to their former victims. +15% to Rehabilitation Programs
98-00% Remaking----A philosophy found in the more advanced or meta-psychically powerful cultures. Rather than try to make criminals into conscious better citizens, this philosophy advocates remaking them entirely. Being sentenced to a facility of this time is effectively a case of mind-death, as individuals are brainwashed and, if the technology allows, physically remade, into new people with little, if any, memory of who they originally were. The softer version of this is the use of extreme indoctrination to sharply inhibit criminal tendencies, such aggression.


H. Rehabilitation Programs

“Come along Miss Ingrid. Are your restraints too tight? Let us adjust them. More comfortable? I’m afraid we cannot offer you anything more dignified just yet, but you are still in induction for your redemption processing. Our first stop will be the institution exorcists; they want to give you a preliminary aura reading and a basic taint-purge; I understand association with master vampires can leave lingering effects, and the metaphysicians want to start cleansing your metapsyche of any. Then your first appointment with your rehab psychologist-”

Many prisons have programs to put the ‘correctional’ in ‘correctional institute’ by guiding convicts into more acceptable behaviors and ideally prepare them to be more law-abiding when released. Or, they may have such programs just to keep the inmates preoccupied and hopeful.

01-20% None----The inmates are regarded as toxic waste, to be held apart from society until they serve their time, then released.
21-65% Labor ----Whether it’s making license plates, cleaning up roads, or working on a prison farm, inmates are put to work, and learning work skills.
51-65% Religious ----Whether it’s the organization’s charter or the State religion, religious conversion is regarded as a major part of the rehabilitation activities. Inmates are encouraged to take up spirituality and convert to an acceptable religious belief. Some cultures, especially magic-using ones, may also include active magical exorcism or purification rituals to purge convicts of malign influences and fortify them against future temptations to the Dark.
66-90% Vocational---The prison holds classes for inmates that teach useful skills that can translate into legitimate paying jobs on the outside. Such programs, however, can also teach diehard criminals skills useful in their future endeavors(bank robber Willie Sutton joked that his frequent time spent in prison was a welcome learning time). Some prison vocational programs can be so extensive that they are criticized for rivaling college programs on the outside.
91-00% Mental (Re)Adjustment---Polite way of saying ‘brainwashing’ through either traditional techniques or more advanced drug, virtual reality, psionic, or magical means.

I. Criminal Activities in the Prison
“Remember, the SplugBoys own the skulldust, but the Spazzers run the machine shop and the tizzy nodes. King Tarf owns the ‘yard and has the warden wrapped around his claws; the King wants you for anything, guards won’t do anything to help you. Only the Mage defies the King and the space-out gangs, but his reach only goes as far as the prison library, and there’s only so much space in there for squatters-”

It’s hard to break criminal habits, and it’s almost a certainty that if you get a concentration of criminals together, they’re going to break the rules and regulations, if only to flip off the system that’s caging them. On the low end, this is typically a black market barter economy in contraband like tobacco and booze, but the high end approaches war crime atrocity levels, especially if the prison staff is actively in on the criminality.

01-10% None; there is NO criminal activity taking place amongst the inmates.
11-25% Gangs---The inmates have organized themselves into factions for protection or control.
26-45% Contraband Smuggling---Cellphones, foodstuffs, tobacco, liquor, and other proscribed materials are the coin of a in-prison black market.
46-55% Telecommunications Scamming--Somehow the inmates have gotten hold of some means of regularly communicating with the outside world and using this to criminal advantage. This can be directing criminal enterprises from behind bars or running electronic scams(like phishing for credit card numbers) on the outside.
56-70% Drug Smuggling---Getting narcotics inside the prison fuels a dangerous environment of addiction and dependency. Some prison staffs look the other way on this trade, rationalizing that doped-up inmates are more easily handled than sober ones.
71-75% Fight Club---Prisoners are made to fight for entertainment.
76-80% Weapon Smuggling---There’s a small trade in concealable weapons, whether from outside, or made in the prison shops. These are typically shivs and blackjacks, but can also include shock prods, zip guns, irritant sprayers and smoke grenades, depending on the available resources and laxity of security.
81-85% Prostitution---The prison either allows in prostitutes, or uses the inmates as sex workers. This includes making adult films with the inmates as cast.
86-90% Slavery----The prison culture has a human trafficking element to it. Weaker prisoners are broken to serve the stronger, and if the staff is in on it, inmates are being broken to be sold as slaves on the outside.
91-97% Murder for Hire----While the prison is not officially a ‘death camp’ the fact is that is somebody wants an inmate dead, another prisoner or staff member will take care of the matter, for a price.
98-00% Medical Experimentation----In the alternative, the inmates are being harvested for organ transplant material(could be as minor as skin or as major as lungs, eyes, and kidneys).


J. Internal Security
“...heeeyyyyyyyyy...this isn’t locked!”

How well secured are the inmates?

01-05% Lax---Aside from a few locked doors, barred windows, and security fence or two, there’s not much to slow the determined escaper. Guards may make a regular patrol and nightly bedcheck, and are armed with batons and tazers, but firearms are not standard issue. An escape attempt will need to be reported to the local authorities outside.
06-40% Secure--- Segregated wards, remote-control gates and security doors, and checkpoints outside the cellblocks. There’s regular security walks around the perimeter and bed check patrols through the wards after lights out.
41-70% Ironclad---Major areas are covered by internal bunkers and weapons turrets, and basic surveillance on the cell blocs. There’s teams of specially armed guards on standby every time staff enter the prisoner areas. Prisoners re-entrying the cell blocs are frisked for contraband(tools, supplies, etc.,). The perimeter guards have long range lethal weaponry to bear on the main areas. Outgoing trash is regularly sifted for escape attempts.
71-90% Paranoid----The entire cell bloc area is covered by surveillance systems, the prisoner areas are bugged, and the grounds are monitored for signs of tunneling. Access points are covered by several fields of fire, there are regular armed patrols and special sweeps. Guards routinely scan prisoners for contraband. Garbage is regularly incinerated onsite rather than transported outside.
91-00% Extreme----Multiple automatic doors, robotic guards, injected monitoring chips(and maybe even implanted explosive chips), automated weapons turrets and gas dispensers in the halls, electronic fences, and thick walls with internal sensors to detect tunneling attempts all face the would-be escaper. Guards are heavily armed and armored(and may be wearing the equivalent of powered armor or enchanted armor) and make regular cell checks and head counts. The guard staff also has a special flying unit for searching for anybody who actually makes it outside the prison.

K. External Security
“Guess your helicopter ain’t going nowhere, what with the steel netting wrapped around its props. Maybe you birds will get adjacent cells and you can discuss how your -brilliant- escape plan became your -dumbass- sentence extension.”

How secure is the prison to external penetration? External security gets to deal with escape efforts coordinated with the outside, protesters, and the just plain deranged trying to get in.

01-10% Lax---One can walk right up to the fence and easily find ways in; aside from a few fences and bright lines, there’s really not much external security.
11-45% Secure---Multiple monitored fences/walls and several watch towers with a cleared area around the perimeter, plus a regular drive-by patrol(likely the local police) around the outside of the facility.
46-70% Ironclad----Heavy walls, a heavily-monitored ‘clear zone’, several dedicated exterior security squads, and at least one guard armed with a long arm in the security towers.
71-90% Paranoid---The outer perimeter sports multiple layers of wall, watchpoints/armored turrets with mounted weaponry, and electronic surveillance. There’s a a special interdiction force on constant standby to deal with any suspicious activity near the facility.
91-00% Fortress Maximus---The equivalent of a strategic military facility. Anything approaching the facility without proper identification will be facing military-grade artillery targeted on them. Expect mine fields(or even more exotic measures like moats of acid), booby traps, armored vehicles, robots/monsters, and entrenched defenders to block access to the facility.


L. Medical

<<“Please stand away from your cell entrance while the medical drone enters to conduct a preliminary vital signs scan in response to your call for assistance, Verifying nature of medical emergency. All signs are nominal. Running self-diagnostic. Rerunning medical scan. No health emergency detected. Your criminal record amended and scheduled follow-up questioning to determine attempted malingering or escape attempt-”>>

Prisons are not exactly healthy places, from many people in confined spaces sharing communicable diseases to potential violence causing traumatic injury, there’s a real possibility of health crisis in prison. The overall health of the prison may be contingent on what facilities are immediately available to treat inmates. Otherwise, the staff may have to utilize outside facilities such as civilian hospitals, which carries certain security risks. On the minus side, having extensive medical facilities available onsite risks medical equipment and supplies being acquired and abused by inmates.
01-05% None; hope some of your fellow inmates are doctors with field experience, because help might never come from the outside.
06-20% First Aid Station---The facility can provide only basic first aid and wound bandaging. Anything else, and they either have to get outside help or leave you bleeding.
21-65% Clinic---About equal to a walk-in health clinic.
66-90% Paramedics’ Station----Can carry out emergency stabilization operations and field surgery, but more extensive long term care requires transfer to another facility.
91-00% Full Medical Hospital--This facility is the equivalent of a university medical hospital, capable of handling long term special care and original research.

M. Conditions:
“I hardly regard having to eat cheese sandwiches, apples, and tomatoes four times a week or having to mop out your cell three times a week as ‘cruel and unusual punishment’. We’re not a luxury resort here and you’re not checked in as a tourist.”

What are conditions in the prison like?

01-10% Hellhole--’Roach and Rat Motel’ don’t begin to describe how filthy and vermin-ridden this place is. Poor hygiene, dim lighting, bad ventilation, nearly nonexistent heating and cooling, bad food, tainted water and overcrowding
11-40% Uncomfortable----Things could be worse, but they could also be a lot better. There’s barely enough food and supplies, and what there is, isn’t particularly good.
41%-90% Tolerable ----Equal to a roadside hotel on the outside; there’s chipped paintwork in the blocs, the restrooms smell stale or over-bleached, the water runs too hot or too cold, and the food is regular, but monotonous in its quality and variety.
91-00% Pristine---The facility is physically virtually spotless(or, more ominously, might be called ‘sterile’). Everything is working as it should, everything goes according to schedule. The inmates are fed on time, activities carried out according to plan, maintenance is conducted on a regular basis.

N. Stability

“Eddie, you may be a bigshot in the Lagrange mafia, but this is Mars; we don’t need your big ideas about escaping floating around this place. We especially don’t want the Wardens coming down on top of us if they even suspect you’re trying to organize a riot. Most of us are comfortable with the way things are. For some of us, this is a far better place to be than either the Belt under your buddies or the hellhole Earth’s become. So why don’t you return all the tools you’ve been stealing, return to your cell, have a narco-sip, and wait out your time comfortable-like and QUIET like the rest of us. Maybe even try to do something productive that will get you a Good Behavior commendation. Because if you don’t...well, there’s ways of CORRECTING you that the Wardens can’t prove weren’t accidental. Understand?”

What is the psychological state of the prison?

01-10% Anarchy---Violence is the regular state in the prison, with gangs openly fighting each other and the guards.
11-35% Unstable-----Things are very tense in the wards, and it would only take one bad incident or two to tip things over the edge into open violence. As it is, there’s several beatdowns and shankings a week as various factions polarize and probe each other.
36% Restless---There’s a definite current of unease in the prisoner population, with several altercations or fights breaking out every month. The various subgroups within the prison keep a cool distance from each other, but there’s occasional flare-ups of violence between them, though not with any particular larger purpose.
76-90% Regimented---There are occasional grumbles of discontent, but the prison gangs have reached accommodation with each other, and the guards are coolly respected.
91-00% Acceptance---The prison is a model of good behavior. Though the inmates are not entirely happy with their incarceration, they generally accept that they’re in for the haul and making trouble will land them in potentially worse circumstances. Rehabilitation programs(if any) are zealously attended, and there’s a general mood of personal reproachment and self-betterment in the prison population. Anybody who upsets the apple cart and tries to make trouble is reported to the authorities, or quietly dealt with by the inmates themselves.

(Optional)Prison Population

“Muties! They put me, holder of a Class A White-band rating, behind bars with the Muties! That’s a blatant death sentence for me! The judge has it against me and he’s given me a death sentence! Can’t you appeal my case on the basis of obvious corruption!”

Who makes up most, if not all, of the prison population? The make-up of the prison population can make PCs’ stays much more interesting(imagine being disgraced ex-Coalition States military imprisoned with Tolkeenite POWs!) or may limit their options for escape attempts(“We need at least five reasonably proficient engineers to pull off this escape plan. Any volunteers?””Ah, we’re all mafia accountants in this cell bloc.”)

01-20% Ethnic Minority---Maybe they’re illegal aliens, or extraterrestrial aliens, or displaced aboriginals, but they’re not the same culture and race(or species) as the dominant local power. They could have had the misfortunate of being wealthier than those who took power, or possess physical characteristics(like mutations) that set them apart from the rest of the general population.
21-50% Social Criminals---These are those convicted of crimes born of social and economic desperation, like stealing food, poaching the King’s deer, tapping the electrical grid, siphoning off fuel....the inmates tend to be from the lower ‘have not’ classes who have been driven to take from the ‘haves’ above them.
51-55% Political Prisoners---These are prisoners of conscience, who have taken exception to the local government’s policies. Or else they’re rivals to those in power. They could be conscientious objectors, jailed for a lack of ‘patriotism’, or political protesters.
56-60% Heretics/Abominations---- These could be people singled out for having the wrong religious beliefs, sexual orientations, hobbies(like studying war or meta-philosophies(like practicing magic). These people might have otherwise been able to fit into the population if they’d only given up their objectionable personal beliefs and gotten with the program. There may be some effort to rehabilitate them through indoctrination, or else they might be written off entirely as permanently ‘tainted’.
61-70% Addicts---Dust-heads, wirebrains, zorters, drool-jaws....the prison is filled with addicts, former addicts, and those suffering painful withdrawal. While most of them are likely guilty of only relatively minor crimes, their challenged morality and grip on reality has led to them being locked away under a ‘zero tolerance’ policy.
71-90% Gangs/Mobsters----While many organized crime groups are formed around ethniciities, these cons were imprisoned for simply being criminals engaged in public and organized mayhem, vigilantism, racketeering, or piracy.
91-00% Prisoners of War---Whether being honorably(and pragmatically) detained during time of war, or held illegally, these are trained soldiers taken captive in time of conflict.

(Optional) Special Security Features:
“Rocko, I don’t think doggy biscuits are going to distract that manticore long enough for us to reach the yard drain....”

Some prisons and penal systems go the extra step to make sure their convicts aren’t getting out without official say-so. Here are some special means to make escape attempts that much more difficult.

01-10% Tags---Inmates are somehow indelibly marked; it could be transponder chips inserted under the skin, mystic tattoos, a locator spell, or a genetic retrovirus that causes the inmate’s body to emit a distinctive odor, but the mechanism makes escapees easier to identify and track down.
11-15% Personal Incapacitation---This takes the idea of tags farther, by locking some sort of mechanism on/into inmates that can instantly incapacitate or kill them if they step out of bounds. This is something like a shock or explosive collar, Agony tattoo, engineered addiction to a food additive or regularly delivered drug, or applied curse that effectively disables/takes out the prisoner if they step over a perimeter, behave aggressively, or escape for a period of time.
16-30% Watch Animals---Living guards, such as attack dogs or domestic monsters, roam the grounds of the prison.
31-50% Automated/Automaton Guards---Could be robots, rune statues, or giant bouncing beachballs, but the prison guards can sic these fearless, virtually unstoppable, inhuman bloodhounds/sentries on the prisoners.
51-60% Mass Incapacitation----In event of a prison-wide uprising or escape attempt, as a last resort the guards can unleash an area of effect weapon of incapacitation(or destruction, if the prison doesn’t mind mass casualties), such as pumping gas into the cell blocs, electrifying the floors, mindshocking inmates, freezing everybody into stasis, or just nuking the facility.
61-75% Impenetrable Barrier----The prison is surrounded by a supposedly impenetrable barrier, such as forcefield, moat of acid, plane of suspended time, electrical field, or river of lava. Only special access points or neutralization protocols allow safe access to and out of the facility.
76-90% Simulation----Much, if not all, or what the prisoners in the prison experience isn’t real at all; it’s a simulation. The prisoners are actually all plugged into a giant virtual reality, or are locked into a magical illusion(maybe each and every prisoner is trapped in their own mental world).
91-00% Living Prison---Whether the prison is controlled by a super-sophisticated AI, inhabited by a haunting entity, or located inside a giant living being, the prison is self-aware and well aware of the activities of inmates inside it. ‘The walls have ears’ may be literal in this case.


(Optional) Alternate Ways Out

“Yes, that’s correct. In return for you being gestation host to several clone organs, you’ll be moved out of the general prison system to a new security facility, and there will be a payment of forty thousand riel to your dependents on the outside, upon successful harvest of the clonorgs. That payment triples if you should die during the procedure. So, if you just sign here and put your biometrics here, we’ll start your transfer and preparation.”

Depending on the local legal system, or the administration of the prison, there may be other ways to get out of jail, avoid serving a full sentence, or at least leave a more positive legacy.
Note that Evil prison administrations may not always honor these agreements.

01-20% Buy-Out/Community Service---Some penal systems allow prisoners to work off their sentences in some capacity, with the proceeds going to the offended party or the community coffers.
21-35% Hunter----Some prisons and penal systems permit criminals sentenced for lesser crimes to cut their sentences by hunting down suspects accused of greater crimes, figuring on a version of the adage ‘to catch a thief, set a thief’.
36-50% Contest---Convicts must engage in some sort of contest to win privileges or freedom. This could be sporting events or gladiatorial combats.
51-70% Quest/Personal Task---The inmate may earn their freedom by taking on some sort of special mission suited to their particular skill set; this could be tracking down and stealing an artifact, forging important documents, rescuing hostages(or presidents), or exploring some alien phenomenon.
71-80% Religious Conversion----The prison will mitigate, or even excuse, the convict’s sentence if they make a heartfelt conversion to a particular religion. However, this is more than a jail house epiphany; the prisoner may be assigned a religious ‘probation’ officer or commissar who keeps tabs on them and regularly tests the strength of their belief, or the conversion may be something more sinister; the convert may be expected to play host a portion of essence of a god-being.
81-90% Medical Experimentation----The convicts agree to serve as test subjects in medical studies or experiments, such as a new treatment for criminal behavior.
91-00% Blood Sacrifice---Maybe not a religious ceremony, but some legal systems will permit criminals to donate blood and tissue to the communal hospital system. Some even pay convicted criminals, typically in the form of benefits to designated third parties, especially if the original sentence is death and organ donation is terminal.
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Strangely enough, now I kind of want my PC's to get arrested lol.
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The Oh So Amazing Nate wrote:Strangely enough, now I kind of want my PC's to get arrested lol.


"Hard labor in the event horizon of a BLACK HOLE?! For -JAYWALKING-?! Tough town!"
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"Welcome to jail! While here you'll be working as a hooker, if you want to get out early volunteer for medical experiments!"

"Man, jail in Lazlo is harsh."
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MadGreenSon wrote:"Welcome to jail! While here you'll be working as a hooker, if you want to get out early volunteer for medical experiments!"

"Man, jail in Lazlo is harsh."


"The medical experiment is how much boredom one can survive from marathon-watching reruns of 'The Bachelor'."
"Sensory deprivation? Can't I just donate a lung? A lobe of my brain?"
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taalismn wrote:"Hard labor in the event horizon of a BLACK HOLE?! For -JAYWALKING-?! Tough town!"

I have to imagine there is a place in the Three Galaxies that has this on the books.

taalismn wrote:
MadGreenSon wrote:"Welcome to jail! While here you'll be working as a hooker, if you want to get out early volunteer for medical experiments!"

"Man, jail in Lazlo is harsh."


"The medical experiment is how much boredom one can survive from marathon-watching reruns of 'The Bachelor'."
"Sensory deprivation? Can't I just donate a lung? A lobe of my brain?"

Donating a lobe of your brain - Bachelor marathon...all the same in the end
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Warshield73 wrote:
taalismn wrote:
MadGreenSon wrote:"Welcome to jail! While here you'll be working as a hooker, if you want to get out early volunteer for medical experiments!"

"Man, jail in Lazlo is harsh."


"The medical experiment is how much boredom one can survive from marathon-watching reruns of 'The Bachelor'."
"Sensory deprivation? Can't I just donate a lung? A lobe of my brain?"

Donating a lobe of your brain - Bachelor marathon...all the same in the end

"Maybe working as a hooker ain't so bad?" :lol:
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Warshield73 wrote:
taalismn wrote:"Hard labor in the event horizon of a BLACK HOLE?! For -JAYWALKING-?! Tough town!"

I have to imagine there is a place in the Three Galaxies that has this on the books.


Lord knows I've mentally condemned people to more for less(changing lanes without signaling, spam-posting, repetitive use of 'you know' and 'you're kidding me!' in conversation*).
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taalismn wrote:
Warshield73 wrote:
taalismn wrote:"Hard labor in the event horizon of a BLACK HOLE?! For -JAYWALKING-?! Tough town!"

I have to imagine there is a place in the Three Galaxies that has this on the books.


Lord knows I've mentally condemned people to more for less(changing lanes without signaling, spam-posting, repetitive use of 'you know' and 'you're kidding me!' in conversation*).
*Etiquette Camp on Deathworld #7.

You know, I've been living in Texas for over 20 years now and if I sent every Texan to black hole prison for changing lanes without signaling this state's population could fit in a mini-van.
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Warshield73 wrote:[
You know, I've been living in Texas for over 20 years now and if I sent every Texan to black hole prison for changing lanes without signaling this state's population could fit in a mini-van.



It's a dying art, the use of blinkers.
Along with maintaining proper following distance between vehicles. Seeing nothing but TRUCK! in my rearview mirror and remembering 'objects in mirror are closer than they appear', then trying to speed up to open the distance...only to have two idjits cram in ahead of me? Horn from rear, white knuckles on wheel, prayers and curses on my lips...

Oh yes, the Prison of the Peeves gets another cell bloc filled....
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taalismn wrote:
Warshield73 wrote:[
You know, I've been living in Texas for over 20 years now and if I sent every Texan to black hole prison for changing lanes without signaling this state's population could fit in a mini-van.



It's a dying art, the use of blinkers.
Along with maintaining proper following distance between vehicles. Seeing nothing but TRUCK! in my rearview mirror and remembering 'objects in mirror are closer than they appear', then trying to speed up to open the distance...only to have two idjits cram in ahead of me? Horn from rear, white knuckles on wheel, prayers and curses on my lips...

Oh yes, the Prison of the Peeves gets another cell bloc filled....


I feel you. Only time in my life I ever felt like I was having a heart attack was while dealing with that kind of nonsense on the freeways of Phoenix.
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MadGreenSon wrote:[
I feel you. Only time in my life I ever felt like I was having a heart attack was while dealing with that kind of nonsense on the freeways of Phoenix.



There are no atheists on I-91. There are those who pray for deliverance and those who damn others to suffer.
And I-91 ends up in the Mass Turnpike where last week a guy wound up hanging on for dear life to a car hood speeding at 40 MPH for 3 miles.

I should add a new category of prison population residents; the Stupid Functional.

"You're in here because it would be criminal to allow you to continue driving free."
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MadGreenSon wrote:I feel you. Only time in my life I ever felt like I was having a heart attack was while dealing with that kind of nonsense on the freeways of Phoenix.

20 years ago I had just graduated college and taken a job in Houston. My parents drove down from Illinois with me to move in and as we entered the 610 loop it started poring rain. We can't see more than 10 feet in front of us and there are still cars flying all over the place at 80 MPH. My father said to my mother "we just drove one 1,000 miles to die" so I know exactly what you're talking about.
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Warshield73 wrote:
MadGreenSon wrote:I feel you. Only time in my life I ever felt like I was having a heart attack was while dealing with that kind of nonsense on the freeways of Phoenix.

20 years ago I had just graduated college and taken a job in Houston. My parents drove down from Illinois with me to move in and as we entered the 610 loop it started poring rain. We can't see more than 10 feet in front of us and there are still cars flying all over the place at 80 MPH. My father said to my mother "we just drove one 1,000 miles to die" so I know exactly what you're talking about.

Immortan Joe's Gearboys wouldn't have been out of place in the pre-rush hour freeways...
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MadGreenSon wrote:Immortan Joe's Gearboys wouldn't have been out of place in the pre-rush hour freeways...

:lol: Not in this town they wouldn't.
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Up here it's the recent snow/Ice storms.
You WANT to get over onto the cleared lane.
You CAN'T because everybody already there is going over the speed limit(rushing to get home before the snow piles up?) despite the foul weather, so you wind up driving on the unplowed right hand lane.
Mind you, I felt vindicated when I passed three cars off the road...one of them well off the road and completely turned around...and it was an SUV.
My little Honda trucking along at 30 MPH? Only murmurs of fishtailing on the snow.

Now I'm contemplating a prison colony out on the wilderness of some world where they drop the bad drivers. They're allowed free of their sentence if they can drive 10,000 miles across the planet, without an accident, to the planet's only spaceport on the other side of it. If they slip back into bad habits, they get teleported back to the prison colony. The planet is uninhabited (by anything living), but there's enough automated food and gas stations along the way that any takers aren't going to starve if they're smart and pace themselves. To make it more relevant a learning and testing experience, the magelords who 've set the system have set up various automatons, and enlisted the ghosts of the planet's (extinct) inhabitants, to play traffic to test any inmates taking the challenge.
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I know the feeling about the turn signals thing, My dad and I joke that when you put the Oregon plates on a car it disables the turn signal system of the vehicle.

plus you get the people that just because You have your turn signals on saying that you want to change lanes, it obviously doesn't actually mean anything.
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guardiandashi wrote:I know the feeling about the turn signals thing, My dad and I joke that when you put the Oregon plates on a car it disables the turn signal system of the vehicle.

plus you get the people that just because You have your turn signals on saying that you want to change lanes, it obviously doesn't actually mean anything.


For some people, seeing a car ahead of them signaling to get into their lane means 'speed the hell up'. :badbad:
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This is really well put together, wow.
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Prole wrote:This is really well put together, wow.


Thanks.
When writing these up, I figure 'what aspects might affect players interacting with the setting'(or, in other terms, 'what bat$#!+ damnfoolery are the players likely to pull if they run into this situation and what can the GM whack them with when they do?').
Renting housing? Maybe they have nosey neighbors or born-again Splugorth cultists next door.
Sent up the river to the lockup? Maybe they can appeal their case to a sympathetic inspector or bribe a guard to get a message out.
Negotiating a deal? Maybe arrange to have it in a bathhouse where you stand a better chance of seeing that nobody's hiding anything(on them).
Buying some real estate? Can we see that castle we saw on the way in?

So it's equal parts real world considerations and mad flights of fantasy.
It's fun taking a so-so or mundane subject and stirring in some crazy. Seen the right way, even going to the grocery store can be an adventure(on that matter, if you ever watch the movie 'Raising Arizona', one can see that going to a grocery store CAN be a gauntlet-run).
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