In Hughes County, Oklahoma, about 30 miles out from the town of Atwood, a prison began construction late 2016 at the behest of President-elect Trump. Funding was…lacking to say the least.
Come January 2017, the Atwood Town Council was approached by the Hasbio™ corporation for an exciting deal in exchange for a majority control of the operational sector of the prison. The town saw this as a win-win scenario: more jobs and less cost to run. Shortly that same year, construction finished and the Atwood Correctional Edifice was ready to run.
Warden Karen Jameson, appointed by Hasbio™, was a firm believer in reform through positive reinforcement and responsibility. As a “fluffy mummah” of 12 years and a high-ranking executive in the Hasbio™ OKC branch, she is ready to implement a fresh take on the American Correctional system.
Fostering programs for prisons are not entirely new, however they have not typically been implemented in Maximum Security facilities with violent offenders. The solution to this is obvious to the financiers: a biotoy. Creatures with all the familiarity of a living breathing animal, but with none of the concerns for legal animal cruelty.
Fluffies were doled out mostly at random. Some inmates received fully grown fluffies…
Some recieved a fresh Foal-in-a-Can…
Others got Microfluffies…
Some even received pregnant mares, ready to pop…
Again, most inmates were assigned random fluffies. Some inmates got special assignments, especially if their sentence was for something heinous. Convictions of infanticide were sometimes given Sensitive Babies or Forever Foals. Convictions of racial hate crimes may have been given brown fluffies if they were white. There were really too many inmates to take special consideration for everyone though.
A lot of times this experiment went about as well as could be expected. Tortured fluffies, bloody cells, human-on-fluffy rape, skinning fluffies for accessories, dismembering and cooking fluffies, and whatever you can really think of were almost a weekly occurrence. Granted, it still happens pretty frequently, but the magic wore off for a lot of the worst offenders. A week or two with no contact and no enrichment as punishment was usually followed by a meet and greet with a new fluffy companion.
Some inmates seemed to respond pretty well to the program, even forming a real bond with their fluffy. The fluffies themselves were happy to be involved by and large. It wasn’t impossible to find an inmate embracing his fluffy friend.
In the eyes of Atwood, this prison was a success for the town’s local economy. In the eyes of the Hasbio™ shareholders, this prison was a massive success for their own economy. Publicity for ACE was abundant and free, attracting new buyers from all “boxes” by way of local and national News Outlets.
The downturn for this whole ordeal has come to light rather recently. As is all but standard in the US Prison System, gang violence took hold of ACE. The Aryan Nation, MS-13, Bloods, Crips, Chinese Triads, Yakuza, Cartels, and others were housed here. Incidents between inmates grew rapidly.
ACE still operates at a huge profit margin. Measures have been implemented to reduce violence between inmates such as “stumping” the horns of fluffy unicorns and alicorns, though not all are caught, especially when they’re delivered to inmates as foals. Repeat fluffy-rapists are given less visually pleasant fluffies to hopefully deter their urges (to no success so far).
Some reports have come through suggesting that fluffies are also being used as transport for paraphernalia such as weapons, drugs and even messages. This has raised the question of why the fluffies are given so much freedom despite being so impressionable. So far, ACE has come a long way. It still seems that there’s a long way to go.
Been wanting to do this one for a while. I’m hoping to use this bit of worldbuilding to do some self-contained “anthology” type comics/stories/one-pagers in the future when I’m feeling froggy. Please feel welcome to contribute ideas in the form of your own pieces! Artwork and stories are all welcome!
now, what about those who are to leave the facility? Can they take their Fluffies with them?
