Correctional system of Caphiria

The correctional system of Caphiria (including prisons) is part of the criminal justice system of Caphiria. The correctional system operates under the Department of Incarceration, part of the Ministry of Justice. The Department of Incarceration have the primary role, responsibility and authority to change prison laws, rules and regulations.The correctional system is split between an administrative detention system and a judicial incarceration system, each with its own types of staff, facilities, and procedures.

Caphirian law makes a legal distinction between the concepts of detainment, indictment, and imprisonment. As such, the balance of power is spread very evenly across the correctional system and the legal system, and the legal authority across the various departments is very clear.

Administrative detention system

The administrative detention system is composed of public security departments at the township, regional, and provincial levels of Caphiria. These public security departments can issue detention orders and hold detainees at their own detention centers for a maximum of 90 days. There are two types of legal detainment: administrative and compulsory.

The Imperial Police Force oversees the public security departments across Caphiria and trains the public security officers (Oesitior). Despite being trained by the IPF, an Oesitior does not possess the same authority as a main field agent (Vigilum); the most important distinction being public security officers do not have the power to arrest.

An Oesitior can summon a civilian for investigative purposes, and can use force when the civilian refuse to cooperate and when approved by a superior officer. Caphirian law states Oesitiors can not question citizens on authorized grounds more than eight hours, unless the citizen has violation that could result in administrative detention, in which case, the questioning could be extended to 24 hours. Caphirian law also states public security officers can not question someone for more than twelve hours, unless that someone is a major suspect of a crime, in which case it could be extended to twenty four hours. If an Oesitior found enough evidence for a crime, they can submit it to the Ministry of Justice (or more commonly, passing it through the IPF) to ask permission from a Procurator for an arrest, or if there is limited evidence or considered misdemeanor, they can impose administrative detention for up to fourteen days.

Administrative detention

The most common type of detention, administrative detention is for misdemeanors in accordance with the law for up to fifteen days or thirty days for multiple misdemeanors. Teenager of sixteen years old or less and women who are pregnant or feeding an infant less than one years old are exempt. Teenagers aged fifteen to seventeen are exempt from their first misdemeanor. Due to Caphiria's lack of formal juvenile facilities, administrative detention centers are used in place for juvenile offenders.

Compulsory rehabilitation

Compulsory rehabilitation is typically imposed on drug addicts who refuse or failed community rehabilitation, or who began to reuse after previous community rehabilitation for a duration of two years ordinarily. As with administrative detention, local public security departments issue the order for compulsory rehabilitation. Rehabilitation centers are often run by the public security departments and, in some places, in cooperation with public health departments. Compulsory rehabilitation may also be used as a form of treatment for other types of addiction or mental health illness.

Judicial incarceration system

The incarceration system's main responsibilities are to ensure the completion of criminal penalties by convicted persons. The management and administration of prisons and adjacent correctional institutions are operated by the Department of Incarceration, which also ensures the protection of the prisoners’ physical well-being and rights under the Caphirian government. The incarceration system is intended to resocialize, reform, and rehabilitate offenders. As the principal law enforcement agency, the IPF is responsible for responding to calls for service, investigating criminal activity, and regularly patrolling high-crime areas.

There are three types of "incarceration institutions" operated by the Department of Incarceration: open prisons, prisons, and provincial prisons. Two additional incarceration institutions exist but are not operated by the Department of Incarceration: private prisons and special prisons.

The Department of Incarceration maintains a local head office in each province. There, a prison service department controls the organization of the prison service, personnel matters, basic and advanced training for prison staff, budgets, construction, cooperation in prison service legislation, the employment of prisoners, and vocational training and education for prisoners. It also reviews petitions and complaints and its representatives visit and inspect the prisons regularly.

The incarceration system designates each facility under one of several security levels. Most prisons and provincial prisons where offenders serve sentences of less than 24 months, or are held in pre-trial and pre-sentence custody, have cells at different security levels within the same facility.

Security levels

Minimum Security

• An institution where the perimeter is defined but usually there are no walls or fences.
• There are no armed correctional officers, no towers or no razor wire.
• Restrictions on movement, association and privileges are minimal.
• Inmates are non-violent and pose very limited risk to the safety of the community. Many are on work-release programs that allow them to hold jobs during the day.
• Inmates show the desire and ability to get along responsibly with fellow inmates with little or no supervision.

Medium Security

• These institutions are usually surrounded by chain-link fences topped with razor wire. Firearms are present but not normally deployed within the perimeter.
• Inmates pose a risk to the safety of the community. They are contained in an environment which promotes and tests socially acceptable behaviour.
• Inmates are expected to act responsibly under regular and often direct supervision and participate in their correctional program plans.
• Many of these institutions have training centres and a variety of educational and treatment facilities.

Maximum Security

• Maximum-security facilities are surrounded by high (25 feet) walls or fences with guard towers in strategic positions and electronic systems that ensure any movement within the perimeter is detected.
• Correctional officers in the towers are supplied with firearms and there are additional locked caches of firearms within the institutions in the event of a serious disturbance.
• Various parts of the facility are separated by locked gates, fences and walls. Inmate movement, association and privileges are strictly controlled because inmates pose a serious risk to staff, other offenders and the community.
• Inmates are expected to interact effectively with other individuals and in highly structured groups such as in educational and treatment programs and skills development programs.
• Some inmates live in segregation units, due either to behavioural problems or out of concern that they will be harmed by other inmates, usually as a result of their crimes.

Special Security

• These facilities provide the highest level of prison security to hold those considered the most dangerous inmates, as well as inmates that have been deemed too high-profile or too great a national security risk for a normal prison.
• Inmates are implanted with a microchip which features GPS tracking and adaptive biometric systems which provide real-time updates on an inmate's biophysical health
• Inmates are subjected to forced labor, often under harsh and violent conditions.
• Female prisoners are to be held in separate facilities where they will be watched by female officers, male officers are generally not allowed in these facilities and when they need to meet with a prisoner for official purposes, they must be accompanied by a female officer.
• Inmates are afforded two opportunities per year to appeal to be moved out of a SS facility and into a Maximum-security level