Fortress Island State Penitentiary

Prisoners designated too violent for Arcadia are incarcerated in Fortress Island State Penitentiary, or the Fortress as most refer to it. Located in the Albian River, FISP is the oldest prison in Emerald City, and still considered one of the most secure. Built originally from basalt quarried from the Atlas Mountains, the imposing prison walls and tall central facility loom menacingly over the river.
The prison has a long history of housing some of the state’s most dangerous criminals. With the only access to the prison a heavily guarded ferry, escapees have to brave the river to gain the freedom. The Fortress, like all prisons, has a gang problem, which Warden Jim Maguire and his staff of 2,100 staff work diligently to control and oversee.
Since the Silver Storm, the population in the Fortress has become trickier to manage, with a handful of the new inmates in possession of superpowers. Those possessing superpowers are held in the new super-max wing of the facility: a renovated, heavily reinforced section of the prison equipped with internal power dampers. These inmates are kept under 23-hour lockdown, with only a brief exercise period of 1 hour under close scrutiny. Guards assigned to the super-max wing are heavily armed and are instructed to shoot-to-kill in cases of inmate conflict and escape attempts.
Fort Island State Penitentiary was designed to hold a maximum of 4,000 prisoners, and is currently forced to deal with a population of 4,300 inmates, with a small, but dangerous, percentage of them possessing superpowers.

Alternative Names

FISP, the Fortress

Type

Prison