Prisoner

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Prisoner
Disposition			Neutral
Can be found in the UA?
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A prisoner is, as the name suggests, a citizen serving a prison sentence, usually incarceration.

Equipment

Clothing and armor

Human/Halfling clothing and armor:

• Top: Prison jacket
• Bottom: Prison trousers
• Footwear: Prison shoes

Youkai outfit: Prison outfit

Load-bearing equipment

• Utility belt: Basic belt
• Leg rigs: Condor utility rig

Equipment and inventory

Equipped weapons:

• None

Inventory:

• None

Other information

Skills: This occupation does not grant additional skills. At the GM's discretion, a particular prisoner's skills may be that of another occupation (e.g. whatever job they had before prison).

Overview

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In a general sense, prisoners are people who are being held against their will, usually by confining them to a cell or by restraining them.

In the Mazes, the term prisoner specifically refers to a citizen who has broken local laws, for which they were arrested and are being detained by the Town Security of a particular town, or by the Maze Police. From the perspective of a prisoner, the only thing that changes is whether they will be detained at a town's local jail, or at one of the Police's correctional facilities.

In towns following Standard Law, prisoners are under the responsibility of the Maze Police, and rarely spend much time at the jail in the town they were arrested in; these jails instead function as temporary detainment facilities, while waiting for officers to arrive, chain them and process them to their prison cell. The Police's treatment of prisoners is, on average, better than that of independent towns; however, Police correctional facilities have a long history of ignoring inmate-on-inmate conflicts, not providing adequate food or medical care, and generally concerning themselves only with keeping them inside, until the end of the sentence or death ensues, whichever comes first. The Police's official position on the subject of prison labor is that it is not approved or officially sanctioned, under a principle called "Detain, don't enslave" or DDE. There is considerable debate on whether to repeal DDE; arguments in favor claim that locking criminals up without putting them to use is a waste of resources, while arguments against DDE claim that the Police must maintain a standard of prisoner treatment and that prison labor is inherently unethical.

In other towns, prisoners are entirely under the responsibility of the local Town Security, and their treatment of detainees can vary widely, ranging from livable to abject. Factors such as the prisoners' age, gender, species, the gravity of their crimes, as well as the authority, discipline, and goodwill of TownSec assigned to jail duties, all have an effect on the living conditions of a prisoner in an independent town. Certain towns use their inmates for labor; usually difficult and menial tasks, and almost always unremunerated. Other towns intentionally abuse and demean their prisoners, resorting to measures such as to physical or sexual violence, deprivation of food or sleep, torture, up to and including public execution and displaying the remains (or parts thereof, such as heads), presumably for the purpose of intimidating potential criminals.

Upon capture, regardless of which authorities captured the criminal, they are stripped of all of the possessions they were carrying, from their weapons to their clothing. They are then given a standard prison outfit to wear and are assigned a cell, which they are not allowed to leave or attempt escaping under threat of death. The stripped equipment is not given back to prisoners at the end of their sentence; most of the time, the gear is sold as maintenance funds. At the very end of their sentences, an officer will instead issue a set of very basic civilian clothing for them to return to regular life. For humans and halflings, it consists of a white T-shirt, jeans, and regular shoes. For youkai, it consists of a basic contemporary outfit.

Most prisoners are one of the three major civilized species; humans, halflings, and youkai. On very rare occasions, sapients of other species can be found as well, usually magicians and psionics. They usually receive very poor treatment regardless of where they are being detained, as Standard Law does not protect them nor do they consider them to have the same rights.