[WiP] Sol Alliance Convict Reeducation Program

[Enzayne]

Type (e.g. Planet, Faction, System): Program/Institutional

Settlement Date: Following some political grandstanding.

Region of Space: Sol Alliance - Other.

Controlled by: Sol Alliance, various private contractors.

Other Snapshot information: The Sol Alliance Convict Reeducation Program (SACRP?) is a function meant to put those who are convicted and detained - but not dangerous - into basic employment to bolster industry.

Long Description: Born as an answer to the ever-present question: "What are we doing about our prison system?", the Convict Reeducation Program is the resulting attempt of government and institutions to keep the machine going without overcrowding or likewise putting possibly dangerous criminals back on the streets in their various planetary bodies.

Long-term prisoners convicted of non-violent crimes (or deemed to have been reformed during incarceration) will be offered chances to enter the program, at which point private companies are encouraged to hire them into their labor force. Being convicted felons, they are allowed to earn salary - albeit less than a trained worker would - and are usually limited to basic, untrained positions within a workforce, even if they have the expertise of a certain field.

The Sol Alliance transfers oversight of hired convicts to the company that takes them in, and time served in the company will count towards time served in a correctional facility. All hired convicts are second-class citizens, and are encouraged to be regularly searched and inspected if allowed to otherwise roam areas on their own, and are required by the Sol Alliance to remain in housing assigned to them when not working. Companies have the last say in how their hired personnel is treated, and government oversight is effectively null following transfer to private employers.

As the Alliance relies heavily on NanoTrasen for continued upkeep, they are a natural inclusion for the program, but other independent contractors are brought in depending on interest and influence. Companies are essentially allowed to pick and choose convicts for cheaper, presumably effective labor for unskilled work. Convicts that sign into the program and "fail" to meet company standards are returned to the Sol Alliance, where opportunities for life outside of the correctional system becomes an impossibility.

[Guest]

Nicely written and clear. Ideas like these have been brought up several times in the past, but usually fall short of being accepted because of the implications they bring; Violent delinquents, murderers, thiefs and petty criminals working on Aurora. This is something that's both annoying and unlikely to happen, so should be avoided. Aurora is not a community center, it's a research station.

However, being a research station, I can imagine NT would be interested in specific type of workers, namely, scientists. Those accused of malpractice, illegal research and other shady business. These are things that, in my opinion (which is in no way all of Aurora's or even the lore team's), NT would be willing to sweep under the rug or ignore to get a valuable scientist.

[Enzayne]

I am aware of the implications they bring, but I feel as though with restrictions as to what convictions can actually still leave you eligible for this as well as my initial limitation of low-skill jobs (read: service/supply/greytider, I like the science angle though.) will give you criminals that are mostly willing to reform or at least harassed enough by security to stay in line. I have a personal character in mind for this, and would be listing his inclusion in the program for Security to give me shit for. I am imagining things as no-warrant searches and stricter protocols.

[Guest Marlon Phoenix]

I think it's a pretty accepted rule of thumb (I may be just projecting my own ideas; this is what i've seen) that the cargo department would be fine for people like these. Supply tends to be filled with the shady individuals - it's menial labor and easily contracted out. I don't see murderers or anything given clearance to work on the Aurora like Bokaza said, but the scientists and the like could easily be scooped up, while non-violent offenders get given a chance in the cargo department.

[Killerhurtz]

Since Boots already sort of pre-approved the idea, I'll be defining it further (with what can and cannot be done) and adding it to the wiki. Marking as "Processing" until then.

[Guest]

I have to do this 20 times.

I love my job.

Moving it and tagging it properly.