# Institution: Corrections

*The prison layer — what the colony **does** with a pawn once they are in custody — of the
**Institution** suite of RimWorld 1.6 mods.*

Vanilla RimWorld's prisoners are interchangeable mood-boxes; a "maximum security" wing is a decoration
the sim never acknowledges, and a warden's work never changes who a pawn becomes. **Corrections turns
the shared record into a regime you run** — it grades every held pawn from what they have actually done,
moves a *reform* score that decides whether a sentence hardens or heals, gates release on it, and gives
prisoners the recreation need vanilla flatly denies them.

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## The pages

| Page | What it covers |
|---|---|
| **[Classification](Classification.md)** | Grades held pawns `Minimum`..`Supermax` from a risk score over the record; wall-mounted security markers grade a whole wing; misplacement flags. |
| **[Discipline & Reform](Discipline-and-Reform.md)** | Punishment moves the reform score — harden ("prisonized") vs. rehabilitate. The seat of institutionalization and recidivism. |
| **[Rehabilitation](Rehabilitation.md)** | The warden work that drives the arc: a rehabilitate mode + counselling sessions move reform and colony order, a parole alert + release, neglect that hardens. |
| **[Parole](Parole.md)** | Release a reformed, low-grade prisoner as a free colonist; with Ideology, the execution stance sets the bar. Nested, primed for a future parole panel. |
| **[Regime](Regime.md)** | Prisoner recreation (Yard/Lockup schedule via Prison Labor's timetable), visitation, cell-safety. |

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## The one shared record

Corrections keeps no per-pawn crime state of its own. It reads and writes the single `CriminalRecord`
that **Institution: Core** holds — the same record Contraband, Policing, and the gang systems read.
Corrections authors the `reform` / `pardoned` columns via Discipline and Parole, and grades and gates
over all the counters its siblings feed. Reform and rehabilitation run on Core's shared **treatment
engine**, the same one Ward's psychiatric care uses.

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## Requirements & load order

- **RimWorld 1.6**
- **Institution: Core** — required (the propensity/record/treatment engine)
- **Institution: Policing** — required (the shared climate of order: discipline and rehab nudge it, the
  inspect pane reads it)
- **Harmony** — required (Regime's prisoner-recreation patch)
- Load **after** Core, Policing, and Harmony.

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*Part of the **Institution** suite for RimWorld 1.6: Core · Contraband · Policing · Corrections · Gangs
· Ward. Split out of the former Institution: Justice.*