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===Compulsory rehabilitation=== | ===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. | 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. Compulsory rehabilitation programs are in three month "blocks", which guides prisoners in “structured activities” to help prisoners with alcoholism, drug abuse, and mental illness through individual and group therapy. | ||
==Judicial incarceration system== | ==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. | 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 | There are three types of "incarceration institutions" operated by the Department of Incarceration: open prisons, prisons, and provincial 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 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. | ||
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====Special Security==== | ====Special Security==== | ||
*These facilities provide the highest level of prison security to | *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 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. | *Inmates are subjected to forced labor, often under harsh and violent conditions. | ||
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====Open prison==== | ====Open prison==== | ||
Open prisons are the most common and low-level type of prison in the Imperium. Criminals who have never been imprisoned (or were imprisoned for a maximum of three months) are generally assigned to open prisons. Prisoners are able to complete their sentence with minimal supervision and perimeter security and are often not locked up in their prison cells. However, prisoners in open prisons do not have complete freedom and are only allowed to leave the premises for specific purposes, such as going to an outside job or scheduled home visits. | |||
Prisoners in open prisons are considered to pose little physical risk to the public and are mainly non-violent criminals. Minimum security prisoners live in less-secure dormitories, which are regularly patrolled by correctional officers. Open prisons have communal showers, toilets, and sinks. An open prison generally has a single fence that is watched, but not patrolled, by armed guards. At facilities in very remote and rural areas, there may be no fence at all. | |||
Open prisons operate in accordance with rehabilitation methodology rather than punishment; well behaved prisoners are allowed short home visits for a set number of hours a week and prisoners coming to the end of their sentence are sometimes downgraded from higher-tiered prisons to open prisons towards the end of their sentence. Open prisons typically contain inmates without advanced criminal inclination and who do not have sentences longer than 2 years. | |||
====Prison==== | ====Prison==== | ||
Prisons are usually large in size and are headed by a warden and few deputies, with a team of police from the Department of Incarceration. Female prisoners and juvenile offenders are held in separate facilities other than male adult prisoners. Typical prisons contain those convicted of minor offences and who are serving shorter sentences no more than a few years in length. Prisoners sleep in cells that fit four with lockers to store their possessions, with each cell having shared showers, toilets and sinks. | |||
Most convicts engage in labor, for which a small stipend is set aside for use on release. Under a system stressing incentives, prisoners are initially assigned to community cells, then earn better quarters and additional privileges based on their good behavior. Cells are locked at night with one or more correctional officers supervising. There is less supervision over the internal movements of prisoners. The perimeter is generally double fenced and regularly patrolled. Prisoners are provided multiple forms of education including vocational, life skills, basic education, healthy living, and technology education. The average sentence served in a prison is between 3 and 10 years. | |||
====Provincial prison==== | ====Provincial prison==== | ||
Provincial prisons are run by the provincial offices of the Department of Incarceration and are for prisoners sentenced to imprisonment for a long period (more than 10 years) convicted of offences such as murder, manslaughter, terrorism, rape, wounding with intent, robbery, serious firearm and explosives offences, offences against the state, those sentenced under the Official Secrets Act, or any attempts of those offences. In a provincial prison, all prisoners have individual cells with sliding doors controlled from a secure remote control station. Prisoners are allowed out of their cells for 8 hours per day to preserve a sense of normalcy. When out of their cells, prisoners remain in the cell block or an exterior cage. Movement out of the cell block or "pod" is tightly restricted using restraints and escorts by correctional officers. As with general prisons, provincial prisons are offered access to education, workshops, gyms, and healthcare. | |||
Provincial prisons have a penal labor system that is regulated through the Department of Incarceration (with oversight from the Ministry of Justice). While inmates do not earn a competitive wage, the income they do make goes towards a "pension" of sorts that is drawable upon release from prison. Additionally, provincial prisons use a point-based system to evaluate the behavior of the prisoners. The judge for a commutation trial will consider the labor record as evidence for good behavior and may receive extra compensation based on the extra points they have. These points are in turn used to upgrade and improve the inmate's general living condition, such as being able to use the Internet or have a larger cell. | |||
==See also== | ==See also== | ||
[[category:Caphiria]] | [[category:Caphiria]] | ||