Punishment

A coughing fit spreads throughout the ship. They find out a deregger smuggled in several pollinating plants instead of the seeds in stasis pods they said they had. -- BKF

It never would have happened if the scanners weren't down for maintenance. Later analysis would reveal that there was sabotage on them to manufacture a maintenance flaw.

It's amazing what malicious people can do with magnets, thumb drives, and a complete disregard for anyone's safety.

Slow Cruiser Vessel, the Idle Hours, took passengers at their word. To be completely fair, the alleged stasis pods that Passenger Fidendra brought aboard looked like functioning stasis pods. They used ship's power and submitted reports to the Idle Hours' safety monitoring logs. They even had expected normal fluctuations in the readouts. He thought of everything... except pollen.

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In a class meant for therapists working with inmates, a history of prisons from various worlds, especially earth, is given. Along with unfortunate examples of prisons, and prison-life, from Deregger worlds and the damage it does before people are rescued. -- Lessons

Deathworlders, especially, hold the belief that punishing a wrongdoer will prevent them from doing wrong ever again. This has naturally lead to the idea that some groups are genetically predisposed to crime. That, as we know today, is a logical