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Rehabilitation — the post-arrest loop, wired
The warden work that finally drives discipline, reform, and parole. Source in
Source/Justice/Corrections/.
Classification, discipline, deterrence, and parole always had their maths — a grade over the record, a reform score punishment moves, an order climate, a release decision. What they lacked was a trigger: nothing in play called them. Reform never moved, so classification never re-graded and parole never fired; the only thing that raised the colony's order was a punishment nothing invoked. The post-arrest half of the loop was real code with no way to run it.
Rehabilitation is that trigger. It gives corrections the same treatment Ward gave psychiatric care — a prisoner interaction mode, warden jobs, an alert, and an inspect readout — so a warden actually reforms a prisoner over time and paroles them when they have turned a corner.
The two modes
Both are non-exclusive prisoner interaction modes (the shape Prison Labor and Ward use), so they stack with each other and with recruit / reduce-resistance.
| Mode | What a warden does | Result |
|---|---|---|
| Rehabilitate | Runs counselling sessions on the prisoner | Reform rises, the reform track fills, colony order rises |
| Parole when reformed | Releases the prisoner once they are eligible | A paroled colonist, back in the colony |
Set Rehabilitate alone to run the programme and parole by hand when the alert fires; set both for a hands-off "reform, then release" pipeline. A prisoner flagged for parole who is not yet eligible is simply not acted on — the warden waits.
A rehabilitation session
A warden walks to the prisoner and counsels them for ~1250 ticks (about 20 in-game minutes), Social
being the active skill. On completion (never on interruption — the credit is a follow-on toil), one
session does three things, in CorrectionsUtility.RunReformSession:
- Corrective discipline —
Discipline.Punish(prisoner, harsh: false): reform +0.10, and the punishment is recorded, which raises the colony's order by+0.12. This is the deterrence-up half that punishment alone never triggered — visible corrective justice deters everyone else. - The reform track —
TreatmentProgram.AdvanceRecoveryadvancesInstitution_Reformingon Core's shared treatment engine, by0.34 × cell quality × skill. It is the visible progress bar, and it decays (−0.08/day), so rehabilitation has to be sustained. - A memory — the prisoner feels counselled (a small mood lift).
| Input | Range | Source |
|---|---|---|
| skill factor | 0.5 … 1.0 |
warden's Social level |
| cell quality | 0.5 … 1.5 |
TreatmentProgram.FacilityQuality (room impressiveness) |
| reform / session | +0.10 |
Discipline.Punish (fixed) |
| order / session | +0.12 |
Justice.RecordPunishment |
Reform reaches the parole bar (≥ 0.30) in roughly three completed sessions, faster than a bad
cell or a poor counsellor fills the visible track — so the "Ready for parole" alert keys off the real
gate (Parole.CanRelease), not the bar.
Neglect — the teeth
A prisoner you flag for rehabilitation and then never attend hardens, exactly as a ward you don't
staff does. MapComponent_ReformNeglect measures the days since the last real session; past two
days of neglect, reform falls −0.15/day and they resent it (a mood hit). The hardening lowers
reform directly, not through Discipline.Punish — neglect is passive prisonization, not an act of
visible justice, so unlike a session it must not raise the colony's order.
Attend the prisoner and the clock resets; flag them and walk away and they slide back toward the record that put them in. "A reform programme you don't staff is worse than none."
Parole — the release that stays
When a rehabilitated prisoner clears Parole.CanRelease — reform ≥ 0.30, security grade
≤ Medium, not already pardoned — the Ready for parole alert names them. A warden set to Parole
then processes the release (CorrectionsUtility.ReleaseOnParole):
- marks the pardon on the record;
- clears the prisoner hold so a former colonist is a free colonist again — a parolee who stays in the colony carrying their record, not vanilla's release that ejects them from the map;
- a grateful memory, and a small +0.03 to order (a lawful release is visible justice too).
The parolee keeps their CriminalRecord, so if they reoffend the policing loop catches
them again — recidivism, closing back onto the start.
Seeing it
A rehabilitated prisoner's inspect pane shows the state directly (a Harmony postfix on
Pawn.GetInspectString, via Justice's existing Regime patch — not a contested method):
Rehabilitation: reforming (40%) · reformed — ready for parole · — neglected (3d)
And because the colony's order climate otherwise has no readout at all, the same line surfaces it when it is far enough from ordinary to matter — Colony order: low (28%) — crime pays here / high (71%) — order holds.
What this closes
With rehabilitation wired, the whole post-arrest arc runs in play: discipline moves reform, classification re-grades as reform rises, deterrence climbs on visible justice (not just falls on crime), parole releases the reformed, and Core's treatment engine carries the reform track the same way it carries Ward's recovery. The loop closes back onto disposition — catching, reforming, and releasing one pawn moves the climate every other pawn is judged against.
Gated by InstitutionSettings.justice, like the rest of the corrections layer.
Part of the Institution suite. AI disclosure: developed with substantial assistance from Claude (Anthropic).