The Isle of Läthnaevoryn - Breaker Isle

"Läthnaevoryn, known colloquially as Breaker Isle, was supposed to be a temporary solution to prisoner overpopulation following the end of the Sovereign War. The island was previously home to a small working harbour and storehouse amid a crumbling Volkerian complex -- the former Imperial Governor's Seat, largely abandoned in the centuries since the fall of the Eldren Empire and used primarily to store materiel marked for scrap. Putting the prisoners to work in that department was a natural next step to their confinement on the isle -- at least as far as the Ïun Kënët-dominated ruling coalition were concerned. Over 12 years on, and the prisoners are still crammed into the same temporary canvas shelters -- 100 prisoners to a 10-man tent. Many Cyfód Cantors have voiced objections to the inhumane conditions at Läthnaevoryn, but they lack the votes to bring any legal action in the Chorus. Nevertheless, they persist under the leadership of Cantor Bhríde Tëgryn a Conn, slowly building towards coalition with those Äred Cantors who have begun to see Ïun Kënët for what they are, and raising obstacles to the isle's continued operation wherever possible.
The coastline is surrounded by a powerful undertow that pulls unsuspecting swimmers into the labyrinthine network of undersea caverns below the bay of Myrr. The island is also encompassed by a massive sea-wall fortified with gun emplacements every 30 meters -- a legacy of its time as Volker's eyes and ears within his Empire's fractious Second City. Most of these have been decommissioned since the opening of the camps within. Interior walls that once overlooked barracks and parade grounds now separate the various camps and administrative facilities from one another. To the North, a small harbor protected by sea-wall provides a location secure from the isle's recalcitrant denizens where supply-barges and meddling politicians' vessels may dock. The Southron and far larger and better fortified Breaker Harbor serves as final home to those vessels deemed fit for scrap and as a debarkation point for new arrivals. At the Northron tip of the isle, a small caldera known as the Sulphur Pit serves as the isle's prime waste receptacle -- material deemed unfit for repurpose, allegedly including the odd rebellious inmate, is routinely heaved in to melt into the magma below. The nearby re-education centre houses those prisoners whose infractions have earned them one of any number of particularly brutal punishments. The screams echoing from its walls can occasionally be heard from the decks of ships passing into the city proper.
Thousands of prisoners are present within the facility. Prisoners of war, political prisoners, saboteurs, terrorists, gangsters, assassins, and common criminals there receive the same treatment -- 14 hours of hard labor a day and a 4-foot square of dirt to sleep in at night. A Cyfód-led probe of the facility recently tallied the precise number there imprisoned at 15,673, but I am quite sure that number has increased in the days since. Attempts to confirm identities and the charges levied against individual prisoners were denied by express order of the Ïun Kënët Chair's office and confirmed by an almost certainly illegal special session. Ïun Kënët were able to declare a quorum for special vote without informing the other factions. They voted unanimously to uphold the order. Most Äred Cantors lifted not a finger to censure this action. Prisoners' work is overseen by a dedicated wing of the Bëldamniad Wëryn who answer only to the Chorus -- and by extension only to Ïun Kënët. Once a prisoner sets foot on the island, it is fully expected that they will never leave it. Many new arrivals attempt to escape. They are invariably killed by the guards or left to drown in the bay. Only one group is thought to have ever succeeded, though official Wëryniad records list them all deceased following an unfortunate collapse at the rim of the caldera.
The isle's Commandant Resident, Neia Urien, has developed a reputation for dreadful cruelty and brutality. Punishments for shoddy work and other infractions can include any form of torture imaginable, with the full sanction of Ïun Kënët and the ruling coalition. Many attempts to remove her over the years have fallen frustratingly short of a majority vote, thanks in large part to the blind-eye turned by many "moderate" Äred Cantors. It has become something of a tradition for Cyfód to inaugurate each new Choral session with a motion for the dissolution of the work camp and Commandant Urien's arrest. Prime Vocator Eira Lwyn has thus far maintained her silence as to the situation, stating only that the Chorus has the mandate of the people and that it would be improper for any head of state to interfere."

--R. Corvisher, "Westryn, the Humble Wayfarer's Companion"