hey dude i'm just popping in to say that by and large, most of the characters, wardens and inmates alike, are coming from settings where the baseline for prison is so much fucking worse than this. we have several period characters or characters who grew up in period environments and also literally NONE of them have seen how it works in practice, besides william and loki. there have been multiple wardens discussing their suspicions on this front, whether they trust the system, etc (i myself have participated in like 3 or 4 conversations about this), but of course the wardens aren't going to talk to the inmates about it. especially not volk, who you give an inch and he takes a mile.

speaking for myself as a player here: you are blurring ic/ooc and it's actually making it actively unpleasant to play a warden bc now i have to worry that i'm going to get judged about my ooc values for shit my dumbass devil hunter does. this is deeply off-putting.