Space Law

Space Law

Funky station operates under space law. All crew, passengers, and visitors aboard the station are expected to know and follow these laws. Functionally, only the warden and command needs to know details regarding punishment and timing and how they relate to space law.

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 counseling 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 given their shift mandated PDA after confinement has finished. If there is substantial proof that the PDA has been tampered with, the PDA should be secured and replaced with a new one instead.
• 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 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.

Search and Seizure

A personnel search is a seizure of the objects in a person's backpack, hands, coat, belt, and pockets. If any contraband is found during a search, the officer may choose to further the search into a detainment or simply confiscate the restricted items. After the search is conducted, all legal items are to be returned to the person. A crewmate may legally decline any search conducted without probable cause or a warrant while the alert level is green. It should be noted that if the alert level is blue or above, all personnel searches are legal.

A departmental search is the sweep of an entire area or department for contraband. It is recommended that the officers be extremely thorough, checking all lockers, crates, and doors. These can only be done with permission and, ideally, a warrant signed by the department head or highest-ranking command staff (the captain in most cases).

Implantation

Any prisoner in custody can be subjected to implantation or implant removal procedures, so long as it's within reason. The process of adding an implant should not prolong the detainees sentence, meaning you can not hold them longer to administer the implant, unless stated otherwise. A former inmate can be requested to undergo implantation at a later point in time if they fit the circumstances during their confinement, they must comply. The following have been listed out with special circumstances, anything not in this list can still be applied, given proper legal context. A prisoner can still receive implantation procedures without meeting the circumstances if they give their clear permission.

Mind Shields: Mind Shields can be administered to any inmate who is clearly brainwashed. Unlike standard implantation, you may hold a prisoner until they are issued a Mind Shield, so long as it's done in a timely fashion. If a suspect refuses to cooperate or the implant fails to function, they can be charged with Refusal of Mental Shielding.

A crewmate can refuse a Mind Shield if they are not imprisoned for committing a crime.

Removal

A suspect can be forced to receive implant removal if there is strong, reasonable proof that they have been implanted, such as an officer witnessing them use an implantation device or their biological information being found on a discarded injector. Unlike the implantation procedure, a prisoner can have their sentence entirely delayed or extended until they comply with the removal procedure as long as security are actively making attempts to preform it. Akin to implanting, if an inmate gives their clear permission, implant removal can proceed without proof.

Sentencing

All sentencing is to primarily be handled by the Warden. If no Warden is available, the Head of Security is to take over that duty. If there is no Head of Security, it falls onto the highest ranking command member to control sentencing.

Use common sense and humanity when issuing punishments. You should not always seek out the highest punishment you can, you don't have to always give the maximum time or always look to demote someone. Always take in account the severity of the crime and only charge for what is needed for someone to learn their lesson.

Accessory, Attempting, And Intention: If someone intentionally, knowingly and substantially assists someone in enacting a crime, they can be charged with those relevant crimes. For example, if an engineer gives someone tools with the knowledge that they will trespass using those tools, the engineer has become an accessory to that crime. Same goes for a clear and solid attempt at a crime, or a person who shows clear intent to act out a crime, such as a syndicate nuclear operative arming a nuke but getting arrested before it goes off - they can still be charged with terrorism. This does not apply to crimes that have an attempted listing already, like attempted murder.

Stackable Crimes: Crimes are to be considered 'stackable' in the sense that if you charge someone with two or more different, linked crimes, you should combine the times you would give them for each crime.

Executions: Executions may be authorized by the Captain / acting Captain after a trial has been conducted. Executions may also be approved by CentComm, following formal contact.

If the sentencing of an individual goes beyond 20 minutes, it is highly recommended to put them into permanent confinement.

I Degree

Offense	Description	Recommended Maximum Punishment	Notes
Disturbance	To cause a public disturbance.	2:00	Sometimes referred to as hooliganism. The catch-all for obnoxious crewmates. Covers things such as public nudity, needless insults, obstructing authorities, and inciting crime or violence.
Petty Theft	Causing a public disturbance or otherwise non-violently harming the public.	3:00	The difference between petty theft and grand theft is based on how crucial the stolen item is. Things like instruments, clothing and tools fall under petty theft. In most cases all you need to do is detain the thief, return the stolen item and let them go with a warning.
Possession/Use of Illegal Substances	To make, hold, or abuse restricted drugs or chemicals.	3:00	This is to be followed in accordance with Standard Operating Procedure. If anything questionable is not brought up in SOP the captain or highest standing command staff may publicly restrict it.
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.
Vandalism	To intentionally deface or superficially damage public or private property.	2:00	Painting graffiti, smashing bar glasses, and cracking internal windows is vandalism, breaking a window into space or secure areas is not.

II Degree

Offense	Description	Recommended Maximum Punishment	Notes
Animal Cruelty	To inflict unnecessary suffering or harm on a non-sapient being with malicious intent.	5:00	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.
Damage/Destruction of Property	To maliciously damage or deface public or private property or equipment.	4:00	Step up from vandalism but a step down from mass destruction.
Endagerment	To recklessly put yourself or others in danger, either through direct action, or failure to act.	4:00	Covers industrial accidents, industrial negligence, self-experimentation, or even medical malpractice.
Failure to Comply	To resist reasonable orders given by an authority. This extends to warrants and authorized searches.	2:00	The order has to be reasonable and the person has to receive a good amount of warning before the arrest is issued.
Possession of Restricted Gear	To hold or use non-lethal items or objects that are restricted or illegal.	5:00	This is mostly for syndicate contraband; EMAGs, syndicate gas masks, bloodred hardsuits, hijacked PDAs, or implants, however can sometimes extend to things the individual shouldn't possess like Kevlar vests and security gear.
Rioting	To take part in a large group of personnel creating an unlawful public disturbance.	4:00	Crimes like damage of property or battery are expected to be thrown on top of this charge. Leaders of a riot can be charged with all crimes that happen under their lead.

III Degree

Offense	Description	Recommended Maximum Punishment	Notes
Assault/Battery	Threatening to or using physical force against someone without the intent to kill.	6:00	Attempted murder and battery are different, make sure you've got it right.
Breach of Arrest	To intentionally resist and flee arrest or detainment by an authorized staff.	4:00	This only applies if the person is actively being physically arrested. Includes people uncuffing or assisting others out of an arrest. Breach of custody is a separate crime.
Grand Theft	To take critical or unreplaceable property of another individual or organization without consent.	6:00	The difference between petty theft and grand theft is based on how crucial the stolen item is, this mostly is used for the theft of command staff items, things like door remotes, hardsuits, jetpacks, and unreplaceable machine parts.
Manslaughter	To incidentally kill a sapient being without intent.	10:00	Includes manslaughter in self-defense and negligent manslaughter.
Mass Destruction	To cause massive damage to an area or major station system.	15:00	This is mostly used for deadly bombings or sabotage of major station systems such as power production, cloning, substations, or atmospherics.
Possession of Restricted Weaponry	To hold or use a weapon that is unlawful or contraband.	6:00	Everything from guns without a permit, deadly blades, explosives, syndicate firearms to explosive implants.
Secure Trespass	To enter a secured area without permission.	8:00	This covers places like telecomms, head offices, security zones, command areas, the vault and armory.
Breach of Custody	To break out of a cell or custody with the intention of escaping.	5:00	This time should be added on top of a prisoners current brig time. While rare, this charge can be bumped to permanent brig if the suspect has repeatedly attempted to break out of the permanent brig. Includes people breaking others out.

IV Degree

Offense	Description	Recommended Maximum Punishment	Notes
Attempted Murder	To make an attempt to use physical force against someone with the clear intent to kill.	10:00	Make sure you've got the proof to back up the intention claims.
Unlawful Control/Kidnapping/Hostage Taking	To unlawfully restrain, transport, control or confine a sapient being against that individual's will.	10:00	A large range of things, used mostly as a catch all when dealing with unlawful control of another being.
Murder	To kill a sapient being with malicious intent.	10:00	This only changes from attempted to full on murder if the victim enters a state of being deceased, having to be resurrected.

V Degree

Offense	Description	Recommended Maximum Punishment	Notes
Mass Murder	To kill three or more sapient beings with malicious intent.	Permanent	Only applies when there have been multiple killings with intention.
Capital Negligence	To recklessly put yourself or others in danger, either through direct action, or failure to act as a command member.	Permanent / Demotion	This covers causing the death of one or more crewmates, failing to repair / mitigate severe station damage, or causing severe station damage. This charge is meant to be handed to Command members, and may be added to their permanent record.
Prevention of Revival	To render a body unresurrectable.	Permanent	This covers gibbing, spacing, intentionally hiding a body leading to it rotting, or other ways of preventing a body with a soul from being resurrected.
Refusal of Mental Shielding	To refuse to comply with a reasonable Mind Shielding procedure.	Permanent	Applies if the suspect is excessively uncooperative or the implant fails to function due to the mental state of the prisoner already being too far gone. If the implant fails the Recommended Maximum Punishment is upped to Expedited Execution.
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.