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Old 02-13-2017, 10:52 AM   #5
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Default Re: Coast Guard response to distress call on Jewell Island, ME

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Originally Posted by malloyd View Post
So it's a Federal prison? There is already a response plan in place for a prison uprising or similar disaster then. Everybody probably just moves on that, whatever it is. If it's something else, then it's not under Federal jurisdiction anymore, or you couldn't have put a state or private facility there.
It's a federal mental health facility with many of the characteristics of a maximum security prison, protected by DHS FPS contractors who are mostly the former Army and Coast guard personnel from when there was a secret research facility (with garrison) co-located with the asylum.

Unfortunately, the response plan for a prison uprising relies on an SRT team among the (still pretty large) guard force who are reservists, auxiliary Coast Guard, part-time agents or similar, commanded by an Inspector from the FPS with badge and arrest powers.

We haven't seen the Inspector yet, but we're pretty sure the SRT are the guys in vests with longarms hunting our characters to cover up the criminal conspiracy of Warden Tyrrell. Who prefers King Tyrrell and might, frankly, be several beers short of a six-pack. He's been laying in supplies for a siege amd refers to the federal agents who asked to talk to Ms. Bell, an inmate, as 'traitors come to steal that which is most precious to us, our beloved Queen.'

The orderlies are saying that little Sherilyn Bell made the guards cuckoo-clock with her mind-games, but they're clearly overreacting. Obviously, an attractive female inmate might lead to unethical and irrational behaviour among the guard force, but if anything, that would make her a victim, not an instigator of violence. Sure, she might have used social engineering and manipulation as a defence mechanism, especially as she had been placed in a desperate situation where she had no other means of protection, but blaming her for everyone going post-apocalyptic raider gang nuts is just alarmist. And victim blaming.

Anyway, long story short, whatever standard response plan to an uprising at Manhanock might have been once, the guards who ought to be calling for backup will be trying to prevent anyone else from being called in.

Come to think of it, I'd bet good money that as part of the island is still classed as a Coast Guard station, any response larger than the island guard force will include some contribution from the Coast Guard.
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