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Outlawry Plan Announced
95% Drop in Criminal Occupants Expected in Prisons

Vitalita, ViZion
President Barry Gio has announced his plan to push through Congress a new way of handling criminals. In addition to the various death punishments available and being placed on Prigione Island (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=533189) or in jail, outlawry and its adjacent option of paying back the victims will become options if the bill is passed.

This will cut down the option for jail time for over 75% of criminals, while the death punishment and Prigione Island are only more more severe cases. This is expected to cut down future criminal occupancy in prisons by 95%, allowing the majority of prisons and jails to be shut down and saving tax payers billions a year.

President Barry Gio heralds this at the civilized way and the financially smart way of handling criminals, as it will save the government and the tax payers so much money as well as allowing the offender to simply fix, replace, or otherwise address the debt he owns to the victims. Should a person chose outlawry over his or her other choice, he will no longer be under the protection of the Constitution or law and may be killed, captured and used as cheap labor, even as a slave, or whatever else they please. Should the victims decide not to take action, anyone else is also free to collect up and do as they please with outlaws given they're no longer protected under any laws.

In his speech to the Congress, the President was quoted, in reference to someone who decides to become an outlaw instead of paying his debt to his victim, that "...in the laws eyes, [they are] nothing more than a rock that talks and throws itself at people annoying us."

This would give the victims options to help make the offender repay his debt, and pay for the crime he has committed, having no more protection than a rock on the side of the road.

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Outlawry Penalty Approved
Effective Immediately, Outlawry an Option for Most Crimes

Vitalita, ViZion
The Congress today has approved the usage of Outlawry as an option for most crimes from the most basic to the most gruesome. It is expected to cause a drop of 95% in new occupants in prisons and jails nation wide, thus saving the government and tax payers billions per year.

This is seen as essentially a death penalty as it allows anything to happen to those criminals who chose it anything from rape to slavery to death and anything else, and being within legal right. In his speech to the Congress, the President was quoted, in reference to someone who decides to become an outlaw instead of paying his debt to his victim, that "...in the laws eyes, [they are] nothing more than a rock that talks and throws itself at people annoying us."

If a criminal choses outlaw, they become nothing more than a rock. They have the same amount of rights and protection as do rocks on the side of the road - none what so ever. Many critics call his a gross human rights violation, but supporters of it say it's their choice, and that it'll save billions in a year.

Dominion Sun-Tribune

Clean, Honest, Civilized Brutality Championed by ViZion Act

Teenager, First Subject, Enters Butchery Field


AMAZONIAN WIRES - A boon hearkening back to the idealistic ways of the frontier and civilized justice has re-emerged in the nation of ViZion earlier this week, with a new act allowing for the usage of outlawry as a punishment for certain higher-level crimes. This efficient and honest method of avenging crimes by the hands of those wronged the most has heralded what some call a "new boon of criminal proceedings and law enforcement" and what some experts of prosecution may believe usher in a new era of trials and decisions.

In the days immediately following the passage of the act through the ViZion government structure - and meeting an applause in the Imperial Senate of Amazonia, as well as a personal compliment from the Dominion Council - a 17-year old teenage boy was the first to choose the option of outlawry for a felony crime of stealing a popular cheeseburger item from a localized ViZion fast food restaurant chain. In the mere hours after his retire from the courthouse following summary judgment, the franchise owner - reportedly angered from the loss of profits - immediately ordered a bounty equivalent to the sum of approximately 1,800 Amazonian Dollars on the boy alive, or 1,200 dead.

Two enterprising individuals stepped forward to the call of duty, with one managing to both bring in the boy alive and carve his initials with a hot scalpel in the teen's forehead. Numerous other "atrocities" of good judgment apparently happened while under the hunter's care - according to ViZion sources, the boy lost his genitalia and front teeth during the process and also had a baby carrot plunged into his left eye socket. That apparently mattered little to the franchise owner, who later sold the poor-thinking teenager to a private individual in the Dominion for 3.8 million Amazonian dollars.

Reports are slightly unclear, but crews on-site to record the first exacted final fair judgment of a crime apparently watched the live dissection of the individual, followed by the Amazonian private individual proceeding to consume the boy's pancreas while the criminal was in his death throes. A raucous barbecue followed the initial tasting, with good spirits around eventually forming into a bloc party with many heavily intoxicated individuals, fattened on the teen's flesh and far over any alcoholic limit had such a crazy measure ever been passed, crowd-surfing through partying security officers and drunk citizens alike. All in good fortune for a day of fun, generated by crime.

Amazonians can only look forward to more happy times if such criminal justice options expand to other nations and other governments; as for the meantime, ViZion has apparently found itself a fair medium of punishment and a steady source of private income and employment through what may arise of this generous measure.

OOC: that was approved by me fyi... figured it'd be fun for a foreign news crew to cover our first outlaw's punishments...

Robert Ryan Fortier~Hexx, the Tanaaran Archon, looked up from the morning's intelligence dossier. "Well, another supposedly intelligent nation bites the dust. Morgan, please make sure ViZon is on the no play list by the time I'm due in Court."

His senior Minister of State had been frowning over the data himself, and his disgust was evident in his voice. "And we get outcries over having penal labor and the death penalty. That is simply barbaric" He tapped out a quick note onto his padd and the message winged it’s way to the Dominations senior C.S. Myriad.

In nanoseconds the nation of ViZon was under complete interdiction by the Domination of Tanaara. No Citizen would travel there, no Domination flagged carriers or shipping would go there, no banking, no commerce. The nation of ViZon was to be shunned

OOC:… wow, this is actually interesting.

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Liberty Times


ViZion's outlaw system: Brutality or Justice?
By Xenia Reynes

Recently, President Barry Gio of ViZion has introduced a new system of criminal punishment in ViZion, which is already throwing waves through the Allanean media. It appears that they created an option for the criminals to choose – when convicted – between compensating the victim or going to prison on one hand, and outlawry on the other. Should the convicted criminal choose outlawry, he is immediately released – and yet simultaneously stripped of all his rights as a human being. He may be killed, enslaved, or molested in various ways.

In general, the Allanean political community and media have condemned the various slavery-as-a-punishment schemes – both because a judicial system that profits monetarily from enslaving people will thus tend to enslave more people, and because in many nations many items are crimes that are generally legal in the United States. Such systems are also – like in Strator – often used as a blatant money-making system by the government.

However, the ViZionian system has drawn more mixed reactions. It is a semi-voluntary process – a criminal may choose to repay a debt to his victim and go free, or to become an outlaw, in imitation of the vira system in ancient Iceland. Obviously, it negatively impacts those without money – those that commit most property crimes – but it is interesting that this not a case of slavery-for-profit. It is also interesting that this cannot be applied to crimes not having a victim that you can compensate.

As such, consensus has not yet been found on how the Department of State should reply to this.

Antalia Reynes, the Senate Minority Leader, has called the habit "uncivilized and barbaric", and called upon President Kazansky to condemn the new practice. Senator Alan Hobbes [A-Montana] has spoken out in support of the president of ViZion, saying, in part, "This is how we should do it, too. I call upon the state governors of Allanea to introduce a system of outlawry in their respective states."

In the meanwhile, several corporations are already making money from the disgusting practice. In particular, Nomad, LTD is arranging for so-called "death tours" in which Freemen can go to ViZion to hunt rapists, child molesters, and other disgusting criminals for amusement. Conversely, Salvation Services is offering flights out of the country for any ViZionian outlaw.

Hunting human beings –sick and immoral as they might be -for 'lulz' or offering them a flight to safety? Yet again, Allanea's moral fiber is of… ambiguous consistency.

The Stevidian Times

ViZion Barbarism Shocks Civilised World



In a bold and controversial move made by the ViZion government, the crude and feudal justice system of Outlawry have been pushed into effect within the nation state, allowing for public humiliation and de-humanising of criminals to become part of ‘modern’ life in the territories of ViZion for the sake of reducing the burden on their prison service.

The bill has been on the cards for several weeks in vision but has only recently been pushed through government and hailed as a success by ViZion President Barry Gio. The national police and prison service have also spoken of their delight has the government and police analysts predicted a 95% fall of detainees in local prisons throughout the country if the bill were put into force. This horrific move has shown the government doesn’t have a sense of morality and cares little for its own populace with the motives behind such a motive including the reduction of prison services and the saving the tax payer money. Although many governments and the majority of the ViZion population have voiced overwhelming support for the move, it is a backward step on the road of social equality, moral standards and human wellbeing in the 21st Century.

Obviously outlawry has distinct advantages but the tit for tat basis it is founded on crosses the line and breaches human rights on so many levels that it is appalling to think such punishments still exist in the world today. The ViZion government will claim, and will be correct to a certain degree, that it is putting it’s people first by taking the stress of police and the prison service as well has decreasing the overall tax people have to pay in order to look after and try prisoners and over sorts of undesirables. However outlawry, as stated earlier, is a backwards step with the ViZion government claiming to give power to the people when dishing out the corporal punishments. Public displays of rape, flogging, death or other grotesque methods of punishment are welcomed and the public are only put on a leash with the flimsy detail given by the ViZion government: “and being within legal right.” – whatever that may mean.

If the criminal chooses it so then such proceedings in public may occur and such scenes will be displayed on a daily basis. Scenes like those described haven’t been seen in a civilised society since the feudal times where it was commonplace to declare someone an outlaw and punish them in whatever way seen to the public the most satisfaction.

The Catholic Church in Stevid has already voiced its opposition to the move made by the ViZion government and the actual government of Stevid has not yet made an official statement. But with the Holy Empire having a tolerant society towards home-grown criminals and no death penalty or even any form of corporal punishment, it is safe to assume the government of Stevid will be against this change in the ViZion judicial system.

While the criminal has the choice of outlawry, it may seem like worst option seeing as almost anything goes- if faced with the option of outlawry and death then perhaps instant death would be the lesser of two evils if one considers the likelihood of public humiliation, rape, torture and probably death at the end of it. Several leading psychiatrists from a few of Stevid’s universities as well four Chief Constables from the Stevidian Prison Service have voice their concern and theorised that given the choice between outlawry and death most criminals would choose death over the loss of their basic human rights.

“It’s why we don’t have outlawry here in Stevid.” [Chief Constable Victor Crow- High Kingsthorpe Medium Security Prison] “ViZion are giving them the choice. I don’t see the point in being so lazy and judgmental. The law is the law and they should give a sentence or not one at all. A criminal loses his freedom not his human rights and yet their courts are giving them the choice between death and the only thing they have left that defines them as human. They will almost certainly choose that. In the case of a choice between prison and outlawry then prison will almost certainly be chosen rather than the criminal running the risk of torture or death by the public or local police.
“Prison works and has done for thousands and thousands of years- if they get overcrowded then it’s the government’s job to juggle the figures about to get more prisons or the lower crime. Corporal punishment doesn’t work as well as it did in the feudal ages- it’s done our country no harm and I’m forever thankful we live in a tolerant society and not in the barbaric territory of ViZion. We cherish our freedom and the sanctity of life. Life is the most important thing to us, but our humanity defines us as a people and to lose that is worse than death. Outlawry doesn’t work and never will.”