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Imprisonment Act 2025

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Imprisonment Act 2025

Passed and signed 5 October 2025.

Written by: Tie

Preamble

This act establishes a new form of criminal punishment, known as imprisonment, which acts effectively the same as a mute but gives the imprisoned individual access to the holding cell. This punishment will be used for crimes in which the person convicted of the crime having access to one chat won't cause any further harm, but rather the sentence is for punitive purposes. The act additionally amends some sentences in the criminal code for mainly roleplay-based crimes which don't cause serious harms for others to include imprisonment instead of a mute. Some other minor changes are made to certain crimes in the Criminal Code 2020, including the addition of two new crimes.

Article 1: Imprisonment

§1. A method of criminal punishment shall be known as imprisonment. Someone who is imprisoned shall only have access to speak, interact, and react in the “holding cell” channel and judicial channels in which they have ongoing procedures, and not any others, but may view any channels which they typically would be able to.

§1.1. An imprisoned individual shall have full access to speak on the SimDemocracy subreddit.
§1.2. Imprisoned persons shall be referred to as “prisoners”.

§2. Any legal provisions pertaining to all other types of detainment which are used in criminal sentences, and can reasonably apply to imprisonment, shall apply to it.

§3. Article 2§1.6.1. and §1.6.2. of the Criminal Procedure Code 2025 shall be amended to: 

 §1.6.1. The SDBI shall maintain a “holding cell” channel for arrested and imprisoned persons to be able to speak, to which access shall be granted only to arrested persons, prisoners, DoJ staff, and any others with a statutory requirement to be granted access to it. Access to the channel may be revoked from arrested persons or prisoners with the consent of a Judge, if the individual is determined to present a clear danger or is egregiously disruptive.
 §1.6.2. Access to the “holding cell” for up to 48 hours shall be granted to attorneys of arrested persons, or imprisoned persons who currently have a court case in which they are a party, upon a request, which must include a sworn declaration that they do represent a client presently arrested, and the username(s) and user ID(s) of clients they purport to represent.

Article 2: Amendments to the Criminal Code

§1. Article 20 §3. of the Criminal Code 2020 shall be amended to: 

 §3. The sentences available for obstruction of justice shall be an unlimited fine and an imprisonment or ban of up to one (1) month.

§2. Article 22 §3. of the Criminal Code 2020 shall be amended to: 

 §3. A judge, after dismissing a frivolous claim, may summarily find a person guilty of making a frivolous claim.
   §3.1. Before summarily finding a party guilty of making a frivolous claim a judge must grant the party an opportunity to defend themselves and submit evidence in their defense.

§3. Article 22 §4. of the Criminal Code 2020 shall be amended to: 

 §4. The sentences available for making a frivolous claim shall be an imprisonment of up to eight (8) hours.

§4. Article 22a. §3 of the Criminal Code 2020 shall be amended to: 

 §3. The sentences available for making a false report shall be an imprisonment of no longer than sixteen (16) hours.

§5. Article 24 §3 of the Criminal Code 2020 shall be amended to: 

 §3. The sentences available for witness and evidence tampering shall be a ban of up to six (6) months.

§6. Article 24a §2 of the Criminal Code 2020 shall be amended to: 

 §2. The punishment for Destruction of Evidence shall be a ban or imprisonment of no longer than one (1) month.

§7. Article 25 §3 of the Criminal Code 2020 shall be amended to: 

 §3. The sentences available for witness retaliation shall be an imprisonment or ban of up to six (6) months.

§8. Article 26 §3 of the Criminal Code 2020 shall be amended to: 

 §3. The sentences available for police brutality shall be an imprisonment of up to three (3) months, and a ban from any position or role which grants the authority to arrest.

§9. Article 27 §2 of the Criminal Code 2020 shall be amended to: 

 §2. The sentences available for framing shall be an imprisonment or ban of up to one (1) year.

§10. Article 29 §3 of the Criminal Code 2020 shall be amended to: 

 §2. The sentences available for abuse of power shall be an unlimited fine and an imprisonment or ban of up to one (1) year, and termination or prohibition of holding certain public offices, relevant to the abuse of power which was committed, for a period of time not exceeding six (6) months.

§11. Article 30 §2 of the Criminal Code 2020 shall be amended to: 

 §2. The sentences available for abuse of discretion shall be an imprisonment or ban of up to one (1) month, and termination or prohibition of holding certain public offices, relevant to the abuse of discretion which was committed, for a period of time not exceeding three (3) months.

§12. Article 31 §3 of the Criminal Code 2020 shall be amended to: 

 §3. The sentences available for Misuse of Permissions shall be an imprisonment of up to one (1) week.

§13. Article 32 of the Criminal Code 2020 shall be renamed to “Harmful Misinformation”.

§14. Article 32 of the Criminal Code 2020 shall be amended to: 

 §1. The crime of harmful misinformation is for a government official, employee, or contractor to intentionally and maliciously relay false, misleading, or otherwise incorrect information to any person(s) in a way which leads directly to social harm. 
   §1.1. For someone to have committed harmful misinformation they must have relayed the misinformation through means uniquely granted to them by their position as a government official, employee, or contractor or in a way which the information would reasonably be seen as being presented officially in relation to their position, and have presented the information in an unequivocally serious way. 
 §2. Classified information shall be considered unknown to any official, unless otherwise proven on balance of probabilities.
 §3. The sentences available for public misinformation shall be an imprisonment of up to two (2) weeks.

§15. Article 35a shall be stricken from the Criminal Code 2020.

§16. Article 38 §2 of the Criminal Code 2020 shall be amended to: 

 §2. The sentences available for claiming election fraud shall be an imprisonment of between one (1) week and two (2) months.

§17. Article 40 §3 of the Criminal Code 2020 shall be amended to: 

 §3. The sentences available for incumbent election interference shall be an imprisonment between one day and one month.

§18. Article 41 §2 of the Criminal Code 2020 shall be amended to: 

 §2. The sentences available for the crime of vote buying shall be an imprisonment of no less than two (2) weeks and no greater than one (1) year.

§19. Article 46 §2 of the Criminal Code 2020 shall be amended to: 

 §2. The sentences available for impersonation of an official shall be an imprisonment or ban between one (1) week and six (6) months.

§20. Article 46a §3 of the Criminal Code 2020 shall be amended to: 

 §3. The sentences available for stolen valour shall be an imprisonment of up to one (1) week.

§21. Article 47 §2 of the Criminal Code 2020 shall be amended to: 

 §2. The sentences available for embezzlement shall be an imprisonment between one (1) day and one (1) month.

§22. The contents of Article 53 of the Criminal Code 2020 shall be removed.

§23. Article 61 §2 of the Criminal Code 2020 shall be amended to: 

 §2. The sentences available for impersonation shall be an imprisonment or ban between one (1) week and two (2) months.

§24. Article 20b, as follows, shall be added to the Criminal Code 2020: 

Article 20b. Obstruction of Oversight
 §1. The crime of obstruction of oversight shall be intentionally, or with gross negligence, preventing the Chief Ombudsman or an employee of the SDIOA from having access to information, documents, chats, or channels which they are statutorily obligated to have. 
   §1.1. Someone may not be found guilty for negligent obstruction of oversight unless they were clearly informed that the SDIOA should have access to the information, document, chat, or channel and didn’t provide it within a reasonable time frame. 
 §2. The available sentences for obstruction of oversight shall be a fine of no less than 400 tau and a maximum of a five (5) day imprisonment.