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Originally Posted by The Colonel
Speaking of prisons, how plausible would it be for a facility - especially one of these high isolation super-max facilities - to have a person listed as being imprisoned without them actually being there?
For example, do federal agencies actually go and audit prisons to check that they have the people they should have or do they just rely on returns from the prison governors?
Obvious applications could be: prisoner has escaped and the prison is covering it up, prisoner died and the prison is covering it up, prisoner managed something in between the previous two (dissolved into goo or otherwise disintegrated or vanished in an unapproved manner) or the prisoner belongs to the same conspiracy as whoever controls the prison (whether as a member or as an asset) and has been released?
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Originally Posted by AlexanderHowl
It is possible, though it is more likely if an innocent is smuggled in to take their place in the count. It is highly unlikely that they would listen to a prisoner screaming that they are innocent or the wrong person because there are plenty of innocent people in prison in the USA. Most prosecutors seek convictions, not justice, and most wardens seek to fill bed, not to leave them empty.
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It is funny that you should ask this, as the Project Jade Serenity campaign actually opened with Mackenzie Chase Taylor, the PC with a stay at USDB Ft. Leavenworth 2011-2017 in his background, being removed from prison by Onyx Rain, an extremely secret Homeland Security/DoD task force slash conspiracy.
Taylor isn't entirely sure what the authorities at USDB Fort Leavenworth were told, but officially he is still a military prisoner in the custody of the US Army and has almost twenty years left of his sentence at the USDB. Two US Army CID detectives escorted him to Homeland Security headquarters in Washington D.C. and later on, to Portland, ME, where he was to perform a job for Onyx Rain.
In Portland, a Col. Burr of US Army Military Intelligence took custody of him temporarily, or at least that's what Taylor gathered from the interaction between Col. Burr and the two CID men. In practical terms, though, two senior Homeland officials, Townsend, a lawyer who was the aide to the Director of Onyx Rain and Banks, a former Coast Guard officer who appeared to have papers from the Homeland Security Office of the Inspector General, seemed to be in charge of him from then on.
Now, in order to do this, Onyx Rain probably arranged for Taylor to be ordered to be transferred to some other prison from the USDB. But, obviously, he
isn't at that other prison. The longer Onyx Rain keeps him, moreover, the better the odds of that becoming a problem if they don't have some way to fix the paperwork.
Assuming Onyx Rain wants Taylor to be available to them for the foreseeable future, but are not willing to have a convicted murderer officially released several years before he could legally become eligable for parole at the earliest (and around 10-15 years before he would realistically get it), they need some way for the paperwork to say that he's still in prison, while he, in actual fact, isn't.