The courts
The criminal courts of Coriolis are separate from the Governor
and the government. They enforce the laws created by the
Council and the Assembly. In reality however, the courts are
accommodating when it comes to sensitive cases, involving
factionaries for example. The courts oversee the Judicators
according to the idea that it is the preservation of law and order
on the station that is important, not necessarily the methods.
LAW AND ORDER
The laws of the station is enforced by the Coriolis Guard who
answers to the Governor. For serious crimes, there is a special
division, the Judicators, who work directly under the criminal
courts. Both the Guard and the Judicators are mandated to sentence
criminals at the scene for a number of crimes. The Guard
can order corporal punishments such as whippings or public
humiliation. The Judicators can order public mutilations and also
sentence someone to death, if they can justify it. Incarceration on
the station is always short and reserved for cases of public intoxication
or lunacy. Longer sentences are served in forced labor
camps on Kua. Fines are common, often in addition to other punishment.
Suicide is a crime that leads to confiscation of all assets
to prevent people from indebting themselves and then committing
suicide to save their families from repossession.
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