Police Forces

[Legbreaker]

Originally Posted by Raellus

...Guards maintain a fortified perimeter and are authorized to shoot on sight if prisoners attempt to escape.

Possible, but I'm thinking that post nuke that will be the exception rather than the rule. How many of the guards, who shouldn't be forming anything more than a professional relationship with inmates, will stick around when supplies and their salary stops coming? May be a handful who do it purely out of a sense of duty, however given many of the prisoners in the higher security facilities (especially) have and continue to express great hostility to the staff, in some cases through physical attacks, any sense of duty would likely be to the job, not inmates.

At least in a POW camp, the inmates, while technically hostile, aren't sociopaths, etc. They at least can generally be reasoned with, and both sides tend (not always of course) to have a level of mutual respect. Many of those prisoners could be released without great problem, provided of course they're aware of the general overall situation, and this is shown in the game by many units having integrated other nationalities which in a number of cases include some who were once enemies.