Prisons in Your Nation

[Bleckonia]

What are prisons like in your nation? How does the system work? Is abuse sanctioned and/or widespread in prison? What do they look like?

1. Most Bleckonian prisons are fairly old, but many rehabilitation centres are newer. First and second time minor offenders are normally sent to rehabilitation centres, which are fairly nice and are focused primarily on education and re-integration into society. Recidivists and people who have committed serious crimes are usually sent to labour prisons, where they are made to do labour, usually in factories on the prison site. Those who are well-behaved get special privileges, such as some rec time, shorter hours, access to newspapers, a radio, or even a television. Sometimes, prisoners even get early release for good behavior and hard work. Prison rules are VERY strict (your stay is like boot camp) and punishments include solitary confinement, where very little light gets in. Those in labour prisons may not talk to other inmates unless they have rec time. However, some prisons have been described by WA officials as "filthy and run down." Many prisons have horrible health services, bad food, and dirty facilities. Those sentenced to more than 15 years' imprisonment only do hard labour for 15 years. Many extremely violent criminals are sent to supermax at Bleckonia National Detention Centre and do no hard labour. Juveniles and the elderly do not perform hard labour.

2. Abuse, especially by guards, is not very common and is illegal.

3. This jail closed down, but this is what most labour prisons look like (but in a little bit better condition).

[New Frenco Empire]

We don't have prisons.

All petty criminals are sent to colosseums to fight to the death against each other for the mass' enjoyment.

More serious criminals, such as political objectors or murderers, are usually taken to Enforcer precincts to be tortured for information, then vaporized, released, or put into slavery/servitude.

Our penal colonies in Africa can be seen as prisons, but the degenerates live in shantytowns. Not walled fortresses.

[Sullivan Islands]

Prisons are officially called Criminal Rehabilitation Centers (Kriminala Rehabilitación Centroj) or KRCs. KRCs are very modern and each prisoner gets their own private room, although two people may share a room if there is no room in the prison. Every prisoner gets a shower, couch, bed, and television. They also have a phone in their room but they are only operational between 12 pm and 3pm. Abuse by prison officials is illegal and rare and a prisoner may file a lawsuit while in prison against an officer.

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[New Frenco Empire]

Prisons are officially called Criminal Rehabilitation Centers (Kriminala Rehabilitación Centroj) or KRCs. KRCs are very modern and each prisoner gets their own private room, although two people may share a room if there is no room in the prison. Every prisoner gets a shower, couch, bed, and television. They also have a phone in their room but they are only operational between 12 pm and 3pm. Abuse by prison officials is illegal and rare and a prisoner may file a lawsuit while in prison against an officer.

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You're setting yourself up for more crime if people, especially the poor, know that you house the undesirables of society in apartments many could only dream of affording.

[Sullivan Islands]

Prisons are officially called Criminal Rehabilitation Centers (Kriminala Rehabilitación Centroj) or KRCs. KRCs are very modern and each prisoner gets their own private room, although two people may share a room if there is no room in the prison. Every prisoner gets a shower, couch, bed, and television. They also have a phone in their room but they are only operational between 12 pm and 3pm. Abuse by prison officials is illegal and rare and a prisoner may file a lawsuit while in prison against an officer.

(Picture TBA)

You're setting yourself up for more crime if people, especially the poor, know that you house the undesirables of society in apartments many could only dream of affording.

Well, our crime rate has dropped drastically. We have certified therapists to talk to each criminal and discuss why they commit crimes. They are provided nice meals, a loving environment, and someone to listen to them.

[Dooom35796821595]

The only prison in the Irken empire is a classified facility, contracted by other species on the event horizon of a singularity. It is trapped in a gravity well, allowing for a stable orbit and making escape impossible.

[Galactic Terran Empire]

Potential prisoners become laborers, if they're lucky that is, more severe crimes land criminals in the arena, where they fight to the death with Gladiator arms and armor of Roman times.

[Hornesia]

We don't have prisons. We do however, have firing squads.

[New Event Horizon]

We don't have prisons. We don't need prisons. And, we don't have firing squads either.

[The CDC of Iussus]

What are prisons like in your nation? Cruel, cold and gray.
How does the system work? Slave work and torture makes up most of the day. The rest of the day is reserved for necessities and sleep.
Is abuse sanctioned and/or widespread in prison? Sanctioned and widespread. Guard wise anyway. The prisoners would be in amazement if they could ever even touch another living thing.
What do they look like? The government has chosen not to show a picture of our prisons.

[Beyongthewall]

What are prisons like in your nation? It depends. The more powerful or richer you are, the better treatment goes for you.
How does the system work? Resting and walking makes up most of the day. Slave work can be found only in rural area prisons.
What do they look like? Only the authorities have the right to see it.

[Themiclesia]

Actually, Themiclesia just passed an act of parliament to regulate prison standards, which were already considered nice by international standards.

The act called Incarceration Facilities Act, 2013 will come into effect starting on Mar. 25th, 2014, requiring all prisons to fit each cell meant for inhabitation with the following items:

Bed with memory foam, with at least one pillow, linens

Carpet on the floor of whatever pattern

Television, at least 32" in diameter, with cable service and a DVD player

The day's Daily Theme & Echo, government newspaper

A padded chair with a desk, writing instruments, paper, and a lamp

Independent air conditioning system, adjustable

A personal toilet & washing basin, in an opaque and private enclosure

Of course, each prisoner is given a voucher of 1s to spend at the beginning of each day, only valid for a week, and the following amenities are also provided at existing prisons:

A general store, with snacks and drinks but nothing alcoholic and no tobacco

A library

Free Pylian lessons

Gardens

Some discontent has arisen over the amount of money needed to convert each prison cell to these statutory standards, which is estimated to be about 85L, or $41,280 USD.

[Perabia]

We don't have prisons.

All petty criminals are sent to colosseums to fight to the death against each other for the mass' enjoyment.

More serious criminals, such as political objectors or murderers, are usually taken to Enforcer precincts to be tortured for information, then vaporized, released, or put into slavery/servitude.

Our penal colonies in Africa can be seen as prisons, but the degenerates live in shantytowns. Not walled fortresses.

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[New Frenco Empire]

Actually, Themiclesia just passed an act of parliament to regulate prison standards, which were already considered nice by international standards.

The act called Incarceration Facilities Act, 2013 will come into effect starting on Mar. 25th, 2014, requiring all prisons to fit each cell meant for inhabitation with the following items:

Bed with memory foam, with at least one pillow, linens

Carpet on the floor of whatever pattern

Television, at least 32" in diameter, with cable service and a DVD player

The day's Daily Theme & Echo, government newspaper

A padded chair with a desk, writing instruments, paper, and a lamp

Independent air conditioning system, adjustable

A personal toilet & washing basin, in an opaque and private enclosure

Of course, each prisoner is given a voucher of 1s to spend at the beginning of each day, only valid for a week, and the following amenities are also provided at existing prisons:

A general store, with snacks and drinks but nothing alcoholic and no tobacco

A library

Free Pylian lessons

Gardens

Some discontent has arisen over the amount of money needed to convert each prison cell to these statutory standards, which is estimated to be about 85L, or $41,280 USD.

I never understand why nations feel the need to pamper those that cause it harm.

[Urmanian]

What are prisons like in your nation?
It kinda depends. The prison system is privatized so their quality varies, but, though a bare minimum of comfort is enforced by state oversight, most of them are rather nice. We don't have the sort with cold, cramped, leaky cells with a couple concrete blocks with blankets for sleeping and a bucket for waste but we also don't have lavish luxury like memory foam mattresses for the prisoners either; the prison companies both understand that they are running prisons, not hotels, and at the same time understand that the main psychological effect of a prison comes from lack of freedom rather than brutal conditions, and need content prisoners to do their work and not try anything silly.

Typically cells are mildly spacious fitting several prisoners and include private restrooms with sinks and toilets and all, simple but comfortable beds, TV with cable and DVD players, rather low-end computers with limited internet connections, desks and all, with a bit of elbow room. In their free time prisoners are entitled to shop at stores, eat out at fast food franchises, read at libraries, attend health services, play videogames, participate in sports and athletics, tend to gardens and, most importantly, work as outlined below, receive psychological and spiritual counsel as well as attend various educational courses and job training that would help them be re-integrated into the society when they're out of prison.

How does the system work?
The prison system is privatized. The state only oversees the system to make sure that abuses do not happen, prisoner labor doesn't devolve into outright slavery and the bare minimum standards are followed; and pays symbolic sums for the criminals' housing. The rest is up to the prison company. To those who as why we are pampering our prisoners, well, here is the answer: the money the companies receive just for housing the prisoners is barely enough to maintain the prison complexes and the real profit comes from the work of prisoners. And as menial manual labor such as breaking up rocks or digging holes is not really profitable, the companies care that the prisoners receive training and have the initiative to participate in real wealth generators, such as construction, agriculture, manufacturing, even entrepreneurship. Good workers who bring in real money earn their freedom.

Is abuse sanctioned and/or widespread in prison?
It exists but is illegal. Typically guards who abuse the prisoners end up behind the bars themselves. The system is set up to prevent the abuses of prisoners by prisoners themselves, as well, and hazing is punished by solitary time, forced labor and the like (though it still tends to happen, particularly in the less well-maintained prisons).

[Oroloo]

Prisons? Ah, those things. We don't bother with such silly barbarism such as penning up men like animals in some false sense of justice or "rehabilitation". Instead, we alter their minds so that they don't do it again.

Yes, this does have the side effect of dulling their minds to the point that they're only fit for very simple manual labour, but at least we have a 100% garuntee they won't do it again.

Actually, Themiclesia just passed an act of parliament to regulate prison standards, which were already considered nice by international standards.

The act called Incarceration Facilities Act, 2013 will come into effect starting on Mar. 25th, 2014, requiring all prisons to fit each cell meant for inhabitation with the following items:

Bed with memory foam, with at least one pillow, linens

Carpet on the floor of whatever pattern

Television, at least 32" in diameter, with cable service and a DVD player

The day's Daily Theme & Echo, government newspaper

A padded chair with a desk, writing instruments, paper, and a lamp

Independent air conditioning system, adjustable

A personal toilet & washing basin, in an opaque and private enclosure

Of course, each prisoner is given a voucher of 1s to spend at the beginning of each day, only valid for a week, and the following amenities are also provided at existing prisons:

A general store, with snacks and drinks but nothing alcoholic and no tobacco

A library

Free Pylian lessons

Gardens

Some discontent has arisen over the amount of money needed to convert each prison cell to these statutory standards, which is estimated to be about 85L, or $41,280 USD.

I never understand why nations feel the need to pamper those that cause it harm.

Because some believe the velvet glove is the best means to rehabilitate the criminal element.

Others believe that all humans, regardless of their crimes, still deserve rights.

Even others believe in a combination of these viewpoints.

I do not advocate these beliefs, but that is why some nations are a little more providing to their criminal element.

[United Dalaran]

We do not use prisons here in Dalaran. We have gulags. Time spent there depends on crime commited. Guards cannot abuse prsoners, or they are imprisoned instead. If you will commit crime (steal from other prisoner, kill someone, rape someone and so on) during your stance in gulag you will be shot.

[Freenationia]

In Freenationia, Prisons are fairly nice, not as nice as a home, but nice, prisoners are teached many professions for when they get out of prison, and are given a computer to know what happens in the outside, same as all citizens. Abuse is not a problem neither by officers or other prisoners, as the computers kinda make them only want to rape their hand, and no other abuse, as it can increase the prison time of a prisoner, and other prisoners can report any kind of abuse. Prisons look fairly well and are repainted one every 5 years, and have Cable TV and PC's for prisoners and officers to use. The max prison time is 40 years for most crimes, except murder which the only time is Lifetime.

[The Third Nova Terra of Scrin]

Imprisonment is the most widespread form of severe criminal punishment and so, the prison is the most commonly renowned and widespread criminal correctional and punishment facility.

[Lojbo Empire]

Our "prisons" (we prefer to call them rehabilitation centers) are viewed as places to keep society safe from criminals while they're rehabilitated, rather than places of punishment per se. As such, our prisons aren't nearly as luxurious as Themiclesia's, but they're not slave labor camps either.

They tend to be one-to-a-room, but doubling up occurs if two people request it.

Abuse, both by guards and by other prisoners, is exceedingly rare.

Prisoners are not forced to work. However, they are given the opportunity to get a job; they can use the money to buy better food or luxuries like personal possessions, drugs, or a prostitute's services. This is to encourage earning an honest living, without the resentment of authority or psychological damage which comes with forced labor.

Every prison must provide its prisoners access to books, audio recordings, visual art, films, and video games. (Note that they do not have to pay for all these things, merely provide access to them. Most prisons have agreements with local libraries towards this end.) In addition, most prisons screen movies and series in their common rooms at designated times.

Most importantly, all prisoners are given access to psychotherapy. This is critical, since the length of a prisoner's stay is determined by whether or not they are deemed "rehabilitated". Psychology in this nation has advanced to the point where most criminals are reformed from their violent or conniving ways, although some criminals still elude treatment.

[Republic of South Carolina]

They are usually sent to Penal Institutions ran by the National Law Enforcement Corrections Service in our African Territories. If they have not received Capital Punishment. No one talks about them nor does anyone care what happens in them. A Criminal is a Criminal in our Nation, no matter the crime, and Africa is Africa..

[The Intersphere]

What are prisons like in your nation?
Less like actual prisons and more like the recycling bin on a computer. Generally, if an Interspherian has done something that warrants their imprisonment they are locked away into an isolated server and said server is stored somewhere far enough away that they are out of sight and thus out of mind.

How does the system work?
You'd have to attempt to kill another Interspherian to warrant Imprisonment, and that's quite hard to successfully do both in a moral sense and a physical (or virtual?) sense because it is the only real crime we have, and thus treated as the most horrible thing ever, and every Interspherian is quite well-guarded and dispersed amongst the Network. And if you do successfully do it, you have to think about what you've done. For the rest of eternity. Or at least until we deem you reformed.
(It's an extremely high tech time-out.)

Is abuse sanctioned and/or widespread in prison?
Of course not. They might have tried to commit murder, but they're still an Interspherian and we're not going to resort to torturing our own equals. We're better than that.

What do they look like?
Giant spheres. Everything we make is shaped like a giant sphere.

[Zokoria]

Most Zokorian prisons are either old or new, and most criminals (even those who commit minor offenses) have to do forced labor while they serve their prison sentences. Prison rules in Zokoria are extremely strict, and punishments usually range from the usual beatings to solitary confinement. Zokorian prisons, especially the infamous Gjenfelt supermax prison, are notorious in Esquarium and in the world for having horrible living conditions.

Prison abuse is common in Zokorian prisons, but sometimes frowned upon.

[Vostag]

First and second time minor offenders are sent to a labor prison that is almost pitch black from there they are either shipped to some place where they work or they work at the prison's factory. During all hours of the day it is not uncommon that they are beaten, tortured, and abused. What little food they are given is disgusting and their cells are small, dark, and dirty and have no bathrooms or other amenities. They work until they serve their time if they don't work hard enough they not be fed or their time extended. First time severe offenders are sent to a underground prison facility where they work in factories and power plants 20 hours a day the other 4 hours they eat and sleep etc. It is not uncommon that they are beaten, tortured, and abused and may also be used for government science experiments that are done by the science administration. If and when they are fed they only receive moldy bread and water. They live in small and cramped cells that are made so small so that they can only stand or crouch and there are no lights, windows, or toilets. Visits from friends and family are not allowed in either prisons. If they get ill they do receives medical treatment unless it is for testing pharmaceuticals and drugs. If the die then their remains are sent to medical schools, pet food factories, fertilizer plants, or power plants where they are burned for electricity. They either sentenced to life or death depending on the severity of the crime. In the less severe prisons they are forced to work for a certain amount of time. All of our prison facilities are underground and usually have factory wings where the prisoners work. All prison cells are built the same and allow just enough room for standing or crouching, have no lights, windows, or toilets and have a surveillance camera in them. If someone steals something then a hand is cut of if they do it again then the other is cut off a third time and they are killed. And we do not do lethal injection but we do do hangings, decapitations, and death by electric chair.

[Farledor]

Well this is a interesting topic!
Sorry if my post is not very detailed...

What are prisons like in your nation?
I'd say 'deadly'...But, that is quite vague.
The military watches over all prisons, though there is still the 'prison staff' (AKA: Guards) whom are much more active. All of it is government run and funded, and purposely given a cold and unforgiving atmosphere.

They're very plain, not quite interesting to stare at and normally have armed men in every corner, being paranoid of anyone whom strolls about.
Also, very packed and small. The prisoners are each given a cell, cell mates are common due to the lack of space as written and not much is given besides a bed and a table to each prisoner.

How does the system work?
Like how the prisoners work/what do they do within prison?
Well, due to Farledor being a militaristic Nation, they're forced to build parts for weapons, vehicles, etc.
So, prison labor exists for the prisoners, those who refuse to cooperate are normally beat, and starved until they cooperate. Or die, eventually.

Any whom show good cooperation are given extra food or time out of their cell, but if any are seen 'abusing' their time, they're quickly sent back to their cell, and that 'extra time' is taken away. Depending on the crime, they can stay in there for five minutes, or two decades.

Is abuse sanctioned and/or widespread in prison?
It isn't common, generally because the guards crack down on anyone who is doing anything as such. But, it happens, and can occur amongst prison and military staff alike, whom they themselves are fired, or removed from their position at the prison.

What do they look like?
Plain, dull and not very entertaining. I would say every post above normally sums up what a Farledorian prison would look like.