Incarceration in Kiravia: Difference between revisions

'''County Jails -''' By far the most numerous type of incarceration facility, county jails are the first and last stop for the majority of people who enter the Kiravian prison system. They house prisoners held for administrative reasons ({{wp|contempt of court}}, {{wp|pre-trial detention}}) by the county court, as well as convicts serving reformative or general detention sentences ranging from days to 30-60 months. There is typically one jail per county, but some larger counties have several such facilities, while in more sparsely-populated areas several counties may share a joint regional facility for longer-term inmates. Conditions vary, but shorter sentences and greater availability of activities, outdoor time, and visitors keep intra-prison crime toward the lower end of the scale in small and average-sized counties. Since the end of Kirosocialism, many county jails have been keen adopters of rehabilitative justice initiatives and other penal reforms, though this is not uniform across the country. Some county jails, most notably those in some affluent micropolitan counties in [[Vôtaska]] and [[Intravia]], are periodically covered in the news for their dorm-like accommodations and low internal crime rates. However, in many poorer and more remote counties, living conditions for inmates are quite basic and may be unpleasant even for jail. Jails in large, heavily urbanised counties face many of the same challenges as provincial prisons. Most county jails are centred on a single residential building, with some adjoining buildings for special purposes and some secured outdoor spaces, surrounded by high fencing with barbed wire and/or walls. Larger jails are compounds with multiple residential buildings. County jails are broadly medium-security institutions but may have close-security units or outlying minimum-security units.

'''Provinical Prisons -''' Provinical (State, Territorial, District, Colonial, etc.) prisons are close-security to high-security facilities holding exclusionary detainees and general detainees serving long sentences. Provincial prisons are tightly enclosed, heavily guarded compounds usually comprising 1-3 large, self-contained residential buildings separated by fenced outdoor {{wp|Yards Brewing Company|yards}}, which are monitored from {{wp|Watchtower|guard towers}}. The architecture, procedures, and régime of provincial prisons is focused on preventing escape and cutting down on violence and disorder by keeping prisoners compartmentalised and minimising contact between inmates. Opportunities for self-improvement, work, and recreation are available, but resources of this kind are more limited in provincial prisons than in correctional settlements and many county jails.

'''Federal Prisons -''' Similar in construction and management to provincial prisons, but operated by the Federal Penal Authority and ranging from close-security to maximum-security. As most criminal cases in Kiravia are handled by provincial courts, the federal prison system holds fewer inmates. Federal prisons are less crowded than most provincial prisons in industrialised states, but house some of the “worst-of-the-worst” convicts. There are 30 federal prisons, distributed among the various regions of the home islands and overseas territories. Many are located on offshore islands or coastal promontories, or in circumscribed mountain valleys to foil escapes.