Brigging Procedures

The Brig area is under the authority of the Warden.

When confining someone inside of the brig, the suspect should be handed to the Warden for processing. It is then the responsibility of the Warden to search, confine, and process the suspect in alignment with sentencing procedures. See pre-criminal trial procedures if brig time exceeds 25 minutes. If the Warden is not available, then it is the responsibility of the arresting officer to process the suspect and handle evidence.

Treatment of Prisoners

Prisoners have certain rights that must be upheld by security and command personnel. Non-permanent confinement prisoners should be searched before they are uncuffed. Non-perma prisoners must be provided with the following:

• Adequate medical care and moral, spiritual, or legal counseling if it is requested and available.
  • These are rights, not privileges.
• Their original headset with only authorized encryption keys.
  • This right may be revoked should it be abused.
• Clothing, food, and water on request.
• Habitable holding cells or permabrig.
  • If the secureness and safety of the holding area become compromised, the prisoners must be relocated, until the holding cells or permabrig are returned to a serviceable state.
• Freedom of movement within their holding area.
  • Unless there is an undue risk to life and limb.
• Their original belongings, unless the item in question is contraband, being used as evidence in a crime, or they are an extended confinement prisoner.

Extended Confinement Prisoners

Additionally, prisoners in Extended Confinement have certain rights but also more firm restrictions that must be upheld by law enforcement:

• Only Extended Confinement prisoners may receive visitors.
  • A maximum of one individual may be permitted to visit a single convict every 10 minutes; a reason must be provided for the visit, and the visitor must consent to a search of their belongings.
  • The Warden or Head of Station Security may void the visiting time limit at their discretion.
• Upon approval, prisoners may request supervised work release if the staffing is available.
• Prisoners who intentionally and maliciously cause structural damage to the permabrig, to a degree that makes it unreasonable to hold prisoners within, are thereby guilty of a capital crime and may receive trial.
• Prisoners who intentionally, maliciously, and repeatedly cause significant bodily harm to their fellow inmates, visitors, and/or security staff are thereby guilty of a capital crime and may receive trial.
• Prisoners may request retrial for capital crimes; these requests may be refused depending on the discretion and availability of the court clerk, chief justice, or at the discretion of the warden or head of station security.
• Prisoners may request or may otherwise be given parole as permitted by the Paroles and Pardons section.

Preservative Stasis

Should prisoners repeatedly and maliciously antagonize law enforcement, to an extent where continued extended confinement or Solitary Confinement becomes infeasible, two of the three authorized personnel; the Warden, Head of Security, or Commanding Officer, may agree to temporarily upgrade the relevant prisoners’ sentences to Preservative Stasis summarily.

There are two methods of preservative stasis:

1. Stasis bed, in which you put a person in either a critical or dead state on a stasis bed.
2. Morgue, in which you put a person in a dead state in the morgue.

In both of these cases, you are to commit as ethical and humane of an execution to enact preservative stasis as possible. If you have the luxury, you should prioritize doing the execution through medical staff instead of using lethal force to prevent unnecessary damage physically, mentally, or otherwise. The preferred method of execution is putting them under as you would for surgery, making them fall asleep, and then injecting them with the necessary poison to either kill or put them in a critical state.

Solitary Confinement

Should an extended confinement prisoner repeatedly and maliciously antagonize law enforcement, the Warden, Head of Security, or Commanding Officer may temporarily place the aforementioned prisoner in Solitary Confinement for a maximum of twenty minutes.

Prisoners in Solitary Confinement must have their rights as a prisoner upheld, excluding visitations. Prisoners in Solitary Confinement are only permitted to be visited for medical purposes while within confinement. Prisoners are to be bolted into a small cell, and said cell should only be unbolted during the period of confinement to handle requests within the bounds of their rights.

Paroles and Pardons

Prisoners may be admitted for parole by the Warden or Head of Security, or may apply for parole at the discretion and availability of the aforementioned parties under the following conditions:

• Shows peaceful compliance and assists officers with their duties.
• Displays clear signs of remorse concerning the committed crime and/or criminal behaviors

If parole is requested, they may receive a parole hearing conducted by the Magistrate, Court Clerk, or Chief Justice, where they will state their case on why they should be released; they may request legal counsel in this hearing, but must represent themselves.

The sentencing officer of an arrest, the judge or arbiter of a trial, or the Warden - for extended confinement prisoners, may pardon members accused or sentenced for crimes if deemed in the best interest of the crew and vessel, and when the circumstances of the defendant or offense warrant suspension of sentence.