The Judicators
The Judicators are the criminal courts’ own detectives used
to investigate serious crime. All judicators are recruited from
the officers’ and pilots’ ranks in the Monolith and then given
special training in the Judicators’ Forensics Institute in the
Core. Judicators have far-reaching mandates: they can sentence criminals at the scene of the crime just like the Guard, but can
also issue orders to both the Guard and to civilians. They are
free to sentence a criminal to whatever punishment they see
fit – even death, as long as they can explain themselves to the
courts afterwards. They can detain, arrest, and interrogate freely,
and in theory use torture. A new paradigm in interrogation
techniques, based on the teachings of Ahlam, has limited the
use of torture however, as the truthfulness of the confessions
they produce has been questioned.
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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