Crime rate is high in Golden City, the officers are always on the move, filling out papers, detaining people, chasing after them, and the likes. As such there are many detention cells as well where the criminals can be locked up. Whether it is for one night because they were caught drunk outside, or it is for murder, there are various jail centres in the city, all for varied purposes with their own level of security.
First up, and of the lowest rank, are the police cells. These can be found at all police stations in the city, so also the Sky. These cells are usually only used for the small and insignificant crimes in Golden City. Public drinking, peeing on the streets, you name it, the small crimes that have a low bail sum and for which the criminals are usually detained for no longer than a week. The cells are usually large and spacious, but shared with the rest of the criminals stuck at the police station. There are no private rooms and neither are there beds. A few blankets are given and some water to wash yourself with, but other than that it is a hard concrete ground with bars surrounding them. Criminals are usually locked up at the nearest police station they have been caught at. In the Pigeon's case it was near the centre of the Land, so she would have been brought to the police station nearest to the Tube of the Land.
Then we land to the bigger and more serious crimes. Anything above the ranks of the police cells can't be found in the Sky anymore, only on the Land. Here criminals are locked up for months, sometimes even years. Unlike with the temporary cells of the police station there are rooms in this detention centre, however, these are usually shared rooms. Criminals share rooms with three other people with bunkers to safe space. They usually get one hour of fresh air outside, surrounded by high fences that are put under electricity. So that no one thinks of climbing over them. Asides from that windows can't be opened in the rooms, making it chokingly hot in the summer. The life circumstances inside of the jails aren't ideal, but neither so unbearable that one would rather wish to die or to go down the Sewers. Exactly as jails are supposed to be like. Security in these jails is high and the criminals are under constant watch. Asides from the conditions the criminals live in they are also ruled by fear and intimidation within the walls. Chores must be done by the inmates themselves as Golden City does not wish to pay any money to the expenses of their household. This also happens under strict surveillance of the guards who are also allowed to give out physical punishment to these who refuse to obey. Shortly put, the true jails in Golden City are also discipline camps where the criminals are taught to obey and to fear. In total Golden City has five of such detention centres, with each their own fearsome reputation and specialties. These will be revealed throughout the IC at a later moment.
At last we discuss the last form of detention, which is the heaviest and often means the end of one's criminal existence and life in overall. This is the Underground. As often mentioned the Underground isn't meant for people to live there, yet many can be found there. Though there are some who fall into the Underground because of their debts and the likes, there are also many criminals who are sent to the Sewers. They are stripped of their identity and chained down into the hellhole, where they are forced to work all day like slaves. The only difference in appearance between these criminals and the true Rats are that they have their hands and feet cuffed, so that they can't run and fight. They are also at all times forbidden to go up to the Land or the Sky and won't make any money while in detention. This is usually the sort of judgement given to these who are judged for a lifelong sentence, so truly the last resort. There is no escape from this life after one criminal has been condemned to labour in the Underground, none except from death, which is usually what their end is. The few guards who are there to watch over the criminals are exceedingly cruel against them. However, usually the watch is given and handed over to a few eager Rats who wants to earn a good penny for there is no guard who would go there on their own volition. The top usually leave these people to do whatever they want to do with the criminals, as long as the said labours check in and out every day at their jails. The cells of these criminals can be found at the lowest level of the Underground, near the ovens and the mines so that they can get to work immediately. As one can imagine it is the hottest there and life is pretty much unbearable.
Ooc: Totally did not forget to write this. Hahahahahaha… OTL I'm sorry. I'm usually a lot more punctual. No excuses.
ooc 2: You can find all of the previous updates I made in the very first post of this ooc.
