AMCO
I'm Sorry Dave
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
The private industry, while profitable, has a reputation. Such a reputation, while not necessarily harmful for their profit margins, is unacceptable to a brand-conscious megacorporation like Globex - as such, when it began to extend its tendrils into the industry it did so in a truly unusual manner.
Instead of taking over privatised public prisons or purchasing failing rivals, the new Criminal Reform subdivision of the Globex Security Division only uses specialised facilities. By focusing entirely on highly-automated megascale imprisonment - the average Centre has about ten thousand inmates and operates completely independently of the local community - the corporation is able to provide a clean, efficient, and palatable service.
The metrics speak for themselves - recidivism rates are unusually low, serious violent incidents all but unheard of, and escape nearly impossible.
Naturally, this focus on numerical improvement has led to criticism that Centres are "cold, inhumane places where prisoners are lucky if they see a flesh-and-blood guard once a week". Such criticism is not necessarily unfair, but Globex insists that its AIs provide adequate emotional support.
- Intent: Provide a tidy, efficient, and arguably humane 'criminal reform solution'.
- Image Credit: Into the Dark, the Grand Brutalist Hotel, Kiruna Mine, and the Ark by Nick Stath.
- Canon: N/A
- Permissions: N/A
- Links: PT-C 'Penitent' Control Collar | Retention Class Prison Station
- Structure Name: 'Second Chance' Criminal Reform Centres
- Classification: Prison Compounds and in some cases Penal Arcologies.
- Location: Various planets and jurisdictions; Denon hosts especially many.
- Affiliation: The Globex Security Division or local planetary/interstellar governments.
- Accessibility: 'Second Chance' Centres are guarded by surveillance systems, locked doors, and security droids. They are not freely open to the general public but there are few limits on visiting inmates. Journalists, influencers, and governmental representatives are given scripted tours.
- Description: 'Second Chance' Centres strongly favour brutalist architecture with minimal windows and plentiful duracrete, at least as far as the exteriors are concerned. Their interiors are clean, tidy, and utterly impersonal. Utility sections are typically cramped, labyrinthine spaces staffed solely by droids; even the inhabited sections are mostly automated - the average prisoner to (organic) guard ratio is three hundred to one!
- Habitation Hubs: Inmates are typically housed in small single-person cells or sleeping pods attached to communal areas shared by groups of eight to twenty-four individuals. These 'habhubs' are meant to encourage socialisation and foster 'a sense of community'. Only the worst of the worst are placed in isolation - Globex is confident in the efficacy of its anti-assault policy, namely electrocuting anyone who starts fighting.
- Priority Habitation Hubs: In legislations where this is permissible, Globex offers a 'premium imprisonment subscription' that allows the rich to pay their way into luxurious habhubs sometimes referred to as 'luxhubs'. Naturally, they are charged through the nose for this service - the 'rent' for a large suite is easily higher than a comparably sized suite in Coruscant's Senate District and similarly overpriced locations.
- Maximum Security Hubs: If a centre holds particularly high-risk inmates - notably literally any Force User; yes, even Padawans - they tend to be contained within duracrete bunkers designated 'MaxSec'. The few or singular entrances to this section are fiercely guarded and the inmates held within are never permitted to use external amenities. If the state on whose behalf the MaxSec inmates are held is stingy, Globex is liable to freeze them in carbonite instead of adding expensive (per capita) amenities; at the end of the day, you get what you pay for.
- Communal Recreation Areas: Habhubs are accessible throughout the day, but they are not the extent of a Centre's facilities - 'comrecs' are larger, more specialised facilities servicing multiple habhubs or even an entire centre. This includes but is not limited to libraries, gyms, and indoor gardens. If inmates have spiritual needs, these are met by bland multi-faith chambers and a databank of 'miscellaneous sacred texts'.
- Vocational Training Facilities: To prepare inmates for their return to society, 'vocfacs' offer various forms of vocational training. Inmates are often encouraged to choose programs aimed at meeting local labour requirements. Globex sometimes headhunts new employees directly from its prisons - accepting a Globex position is considered proof of rehabilitation and typically leads to a commuted sentence.
- Security Hubs: The few organic officers that staff a centre reside within the 'securihub' when their presence is not required elsewhere. Inmates are never permitted inside, for obvious reasons. In addition to rec rooms, armouries, and dormitories (if the facility has live-in staff) securihubs tend to house the central computer core for the Centre SIC - given the sheer degree of automation employed, cores are very heavily guarded.
- Criminal Reform Centres generally house inmates of all species and genders, though restrictions may exist for habhubs if local customs make it advisable. Beings with unusual atmospheric requirements or other peculiarities that require special containment procedures (Pheromones, Force Abilities, etc.) are generally housed in separate centres or, if not sufficiently numerous, separated sections of normal centres.
- Elaborate 'social credit' systems are used to encourage 'positive actions' like smiling, consensual hugging, talking about one's feelings, and so on. Conversely, 'negative actions' like insults, escape attempts, and damaging corporate property lower one's score. Rewards include but are not limited to better food, bigger rooms, and even early release, while a low score counts to one's detriment in a release hearing.
- Criminal Reform Centres are administrated by Synthetic Intelligence Constructs programmed to provide an atmosphere conducive to personal growth. Naturally, the Disciplinarian and Crisis Response subroutines are less amicable. Quotes are provided below as an example.
- "Your estimated remaining lifespan is forty years. While this is less than your sentence, that is no reason to abandon self-improvement."
- "[Inmate Name], please be aware that this section is heavily restricted. Return to your quarters or lethal force will be employed."
- "Greetings, [Inmate Name]. Your hormonal template is indicative of emotional distress. Have you considered exercise?"
- "Good morning, [Inmate Name]. We hope you have a fine day and a bright future. We are all rooting for you."
- "You are not in our system, trespasser. Failure to subject to identification will result in termination."
- Security Rating: High
- Defensive Systems:
- Droids are employed based on 'the principle of proportional escalation'; Eyebots are omnipresent and Securibots are a fairly common sight, while Stryders and Synthmarines are only deployed in emergencies. Some centres have Avalanches and other war droids for truly dire scenarios; external threats are most commonly responded to by Skyhornets - for this reason, those seeking to break someone out would do well to do so stealthily or bring with them overwhelming firepower. Especiallyif storming a high-security centre.
- More comfortable Centres / sections are likely to employ Scions as a more 'human' face for the facility; it is not unusual for them to pretend to have personalities to get close to the inmates, but they are almost universally directly controlled by the SIC.
- Larger Centres are sometimes equipped with shield generators that can stand up to artillery or light planetary bombardment.
- Rural Centres are often surrounded by LS-1 'Ordinator' Security Pylons - such grids are able to ward off everything from wildlife to the odd pirate raid. MAT1 'Fynock' Assault Gunships are often used by high-security Centres to transfer dangerous inmates.
- Droids are employed based on 'the principle of proportional escalation'; Eyebots are omnipresent and Securibots are a fairly common sight, while Stryders and Synthmarines are only deployed in emergencies. Some centres have Avalanches and other war droids for truly dire scenarios; external threats are most commonly responded to by Skyhornets - for this reason, those seeking to break someone out would do well to do so stealthily or bring with them overwhelming firepower. Especiallyif storming a high-security centre.
The private industry, while profitable, has a reputation. Such a reputation, while not necessarily harmful for their profit margins, is unacceptable to a brand-conscious megacorporation like Globex - as such, when it began to extend its tendrils into the industry it did so in a truly unusual manner.
Instead of taking over privatised public prisons or purchasing failing rivals, the new Criminal Reform subdivision of the Globex Security Division only uses specialised facilities. By focusing entirely on highly-automated megascale imprisonment - the average Centre has about ten thousand inmates and operates completely independently of the local community - the corporation is able to provide a clean, efficient, and palatable service.
The metrics speak for themselves - recidivism rates are unusually low, serious violent incidents all but unheard of, and escape nearly impossible.
Naturally, this focus on numerical improvement has led to criticism that Centres are "cold, inhumane places where prisoners are lucky if they see a flesh-and-blood guard once a week". Such criticism is not necessarily unfair, but Globex insists that its AIs provide adequate emotional support.
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