Convict (Earth-5875)



"WARNING: HITCHHIKERS MAY BE ESCAPED CONVICTS."

- - Vergil about Franklin Accardo

A convict is an individual serving a sentence in prison. Convicts are also known as prisoners and inmates, and are imprisioned for multiple vilations of law such as rape, murder, piracy, terrorism, and treason. Unlike prisoners of war, convicts are incarcerated by their own peers. Both humans and the Covenant sentence their convicts to distant labor on penal colonies, often aboard prison ships, the latter which they are detained in holding cells.

Human
Before, during, and after the First Contact War, the UNSC and the CMB sentenced humans with life imprisonment and capital punishment upon the violation of the Cole Protocol. Human convicts are implanted with tracking chips and have a bar code stamped on the back of their heads, showcasing their DNA profile, birthdate, blood type, case file reference, crime for conviction, jurisdiction, sentence, and proclivities.

Covenant
The Covenant also incarcerated convicted criminals on High Charity and other facilities across the hundreds of thousands of planets they settled, where prisoners were often tortured and later murdered. In some stances, sangheili and jiralhanae guards disposed of convicts by feeding them to starved kig-yar prisoners, who ate their prisoners alive.

Covenant prisons are segregated by species. The Weeping Shadows of Sorrow, on Malurok, only held sangheili convicts. Ripa 'Moramee was imprisioned in this facility after a failed assassination attempt against the Kaidon of his clan, however, his sentence was annuled once he was appointed as an Arbiter by the Hierarchs.

The Unmutuals, asocial yanmee'e who suffer from personality disorders, were sentenced to penal facilities by the Covenant despite not commiting any crimes, where they were overseen by kig-yar and mgalekgolo guards. Disgraced Covenant commanders found guilty of failure or heresy by the Covenant High Council were publicly tortured and branded with the Mark of Shame to be sentenced to death later.