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dsumner Justice Leaguer Online Oppresser of worlds Posts: 1784 On High Gender:	Re: Where are you located Reply #35 - Feb 26^th, 2010 at 10:23pm While the facility might not be supermax, some of the guys housed there can get pretty violent. I was one of the guys that handled "high risk" transports (escape risks, violent inmate and "mentally disordered Offenders" to either "M" Treatment Center, Eastern State. Interesting bunch is all I'll say.
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Reply #36 - Feb 26^th, 2010 at 10:34pm

I know this sounds messed up, but the mix doesn't really bother me... that will probably be my undoing one day. I cut my teeth in mental health on an adult admissions unit and honestly the hospital psyche unit was more chaotic and unpredictable in many ways. Again, this comfort level I have with it is probably not good for me.
I think the thing that helps is that while I'm in there I can get a good visual of what the cells are like, what the set up is like, and this particular facility is a lower population facility, more specialized to handle the psychotic offender population... which is somewhat comparable to what may be best for the super prison. This is naturally something that I'm open for suggestions.... larger populations, including general population housing... or more isolated, secure, and specialized?

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Reply #37 - Feb 26^th, 2010 at 10:52pm

davew wrote on Feb 26^th, 2010 at 10:34pm:

This is naturally something that I'm open for suggestions.... larger populations, including general population housing... or more isolated, secure, and specialized?

Since I come from the security side of the house, I'd suggest smaller populations for super prisons, as their custody level would dictate a higher staff to inmate ratio. I can't see powered villains being put into the mix at a regular prison. None powered inmates would end up serving high security prisons.

I've got a thread around floating around with my take on super prisons, as well as one where I started working out the details on possible prison for use in a V&V game (The Stone Mountain Correctional Center). Take look and let me know what you think of it so far.

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davew Teen Titan Offline Designer Posts: 205 Gender:	Re: Where are you located Reply #38 - Feb 26^th, 2010 at 11:36pm Cool beans! I'll check it out in a bit
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Reply #39 - Feb 26^th, 2010 at 11:38pm

davew wrote on Feb 26^th, 2010 at 11:36pm:

Cool beans! I'll check it out in a bit

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I'll have to dig around for the one I did up on super prisons in general. If I can't find it, I'll just repost the info.

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davew Teen Titan Offline Designer Posts: 205 Gender:	Re: Where are you located Reply #40 - Feb 27^th, 2010 at 11:16am Again, nice work there. We're going to have a few different approaches here and there on some elements, but variety is always a good thing! After all, prisoners get transferred from one facility to another for a wide variety of reasons... the V&V DOC network....
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Reply #41 - Feb 27^th, 2010 at 6:51pm

So there's a couple of you in VA; very cool!

Back in the day, I used to be flown out to VA (Norfolk) every once in a while for gaming stuff (I was very involved as a volunteer with a gaming company called Decipher).

Maybe the two of you can carpool when you come out this way (WA state) for our annual GuardianCon (which has tons of V&V played).

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John Galactus Offline The Master Cylinder Posts: 1696 Flushing, NY Gender:	Re: Where are you located Reply #42 - Feb 27^th, 2010 at 6:55pm I will make it to Guardian Con someday.
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Reply #43 - Feb 27^th, 2010 at 9:57pm

John wrote on Feb 27^th, 2010 at 6:55pm:

I will make it to Guardian Con someday.

We're looking forward to it. Can you imagine, if all of the fine V&V folks made it one day? We've toyed with the idea of paying for Jeff Dee's way (flight and hotel), and we already have at least one V&V session running at all times (Thursday night to Sunday mid-day). Numerous forumites from Justice (Chicagoland) to as far away as Canada (Stephane) to Sweden have made it before.

This year is going to be our 8th one, and they keep getting better!

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Reply #44 - Feb 28^th, 2010 at 1:43am

Majestic wrote on Feb 27^th, 2010 at 6:51pm:

So there's a couple of you in VA; very cool!

Back in the day, I used to be flown out to VA (Norfolk) every once in a while for gaming stuff (I was very involved as a volunteer with a gaming company called Decipher).

Maybe the two of you can carpool when you come out this way (WA state) for our annual GuardianCon (which has tons of V&V played).

My National Guard unit's in Norfolk, and I work in Portsmouth.

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Reply #45 - Feb 28^th, 2010 at 8:40am

I graduated in Norfolk! (ODU)... well, actually I went to college at one of ODU's sattelite schools, but I graduated up there.

Not sure if I could make it up in the next couple with my grad school schedule but it may be a possibility... although that business trip I had in Texas several years ago taught me the virtues of flying, especially if the travel is going to take more than a day's worth (when you consider the cost of gas, food, staying at motel or two during the course of the drive), etc...... being the cheap sort of person I am, I'll opt for a seat in the cargo cabin!

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Lord_Inar Teen Titan Offline Posts: 220 Boulder area	Re: Where are you located Reply #46 - Mar 9^th, 2010 at 4:47pm Just about 10 miles east of Boulder
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