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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 prison into a regime you run — it grades every held pawn from what they have actually done, tracks a reform score that decides whether a sentence hardens or heals a prisoner, gates release on it, and gives prisoners the recreation need vanilla flatly denies them.
The pages
| Page | What it covers |
|---|---|
| Classification | Grades held pawns Minimum..Supermax from a risk score over their record; wall-mounted security markers grade a whole wing; misplacement alerts. |
| Discipline & Reform | Punishment moves the reform score — harden ("prisonized") vs. rehabilitate. The seat of institutionalization and recidivism. |
| Rehabilitation | The warden work that drives the arc: counselling sessions move reform and colony order, a parole alert and release, neglect that hardens. |
| Parole | Release a reformed, low-grade prisoner as a free colonist; with Ideology, your execution stance sets the bar. |
| Regime | Prisoner recreation (Yard/Lockup schedule via Prison Labor's timetable), visitation, cell-safety. |
One shared record
Corrections keeps no crime history of its own. Every held pawn carries a single record that Institution: Core maintains — the same record Contraband, Policing, and the gang systems all read and write. Discipline and Parole write the reform and pardon onto it; classification grades and the release gate read back over every counter its siblings feed in. Reform and rehabilitation run on Core's shared treatment system, the same one Ward's psychiatric care uses — so a prisoner's whole arc, from first crime to parole, is one continuous history rather than a pile of separate flags.
Requirements & load order
- RimWorld 1.6
- Institution: Core — required (the disposition, record, and treatment systems)
- Institution: Policing — required (the shared climate of order: discipline and rehab nudge it, the inspect pane reads it)
- Harmony — required (Regime's prisoner-recreation feature)
- Load after Core, Policing, and Harmony.
Part of the Institution suite for RimWorld 1.6: Core · Contraband · Policing · Corrections · Gangs · Ward. Split out of the former Institution: Justice.