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Space Law

On Space Station 14, stations operate under abbreviated space law. All crew, passengers, and visitors aboard the station are expected to know and follow these laws (they are fairly common sense, only security and the captain need to know the times).

Treatment Of Prisoners

Prisoners still have certain rights that must be upheld by law enforcement:

• Prisoners must be granted adequate medical care. They should also be provided psychiatric and spiritual counselling if requested.
• Prisoners must be allowed access to communications equipment (Radios) so long as they are not abused.
• Prisoners must be granted clothing, food, water, shelter and safety. If the brig is no longer safe, confinement must be established in another location.
• Prisoners must be given access to legal counsel during an interrogation if requested and available.
• Prisoners must be granted freedom of movement, and should not be restrained with handcuffs or other devices after incarceration unless there is an undue risk to life and limb. Similarly, any prisoners held for extended or permanent confinement should be held in the communal brig, and should not be confined to a solitary cell unless they pose a risk to life and limb.

Extended Crime Listing

I Degree

Offense	Description	Maximum Punishment	Notes
Possession/Use of Illegal Substances	To hold or abuse restricted drugs or chemicals.	3:00	What exactly falls under restricted is up to the captain or highest standing command staff.
Trespass	To enter a non-secured area without permission.	2:00	It's best to just remove them from the area unless this is a repeated crime.

• Minor crimes. Most of these a warning can suffice instead of an arrest.

II Degree

Offense	Description	Maximum Punishment	Notes
Failure to comply	To resist reasonable orders given by an authority. This extends to warrants and authorized searches.	4:00	The order has to be reasonable and the person has to receive a good amount of warning before the arrest is issued.
Animal Cruelty	To inflict unnecessary suffering or harm on a non-sapient being with malicious intent.	4:00	This doesn’t include legitimate and authorized animal testing and usually doesn't extend to vermin or creatures that could pose a threat to the station.

• Moderate crimes. Depending on the situation you may want to issue a warning instead of a detaining.

III Degree

Offense	Description	Maximum Punishment	Notes
Manslaughter	To incidentally kill a sapient being without intent.	12:00	Includes manslaughter in self-defense and negligent manslaughter.
Possession of Restricted Weaponry	To hold or use a weapon that is unlawful or contraband.	8:00	Everything from guns without a permit, deadly blades to syndicate firearms. A good tac-on to higher crimes.
Assault/Battery	To threaten to or to use physical force against someone without the intent to kill.	8:00	Attempted murder and battery are different, make sure you've got it right.

• Major crimes, times usually lasting around 10-15.

IV Degree

Offense	Description	Maximum Punishment	Notes
Murder	To kill a sapient being with malicious intent.	20:00	Intention is important.

• Extreme crimes, punishable by long or shift lasting sentences.

V Degree

Offense	Description	Maximum Punishment	Notes
Terrorism	To engage in maliciously destructive actions which threaten to destroy, or successfully destroy a vessel or habitat.	Execution	Summed up; extreme sabotage of station systems or setting off self-destruction systems.
Prevention of revival	To render a body unresurrectable.	Execution	This covers gibbing, spacing a still or other ways of preventing a soul filled body from being resurrected.

• Capital crimes that usually lead to a death sentence or shift lasting detainment.