[DesertRhino]

So now the lockdowns are simply an exercise in submission? And that when the serfs obey, they may be granted a few privileges?

This is precisely prison management. Lockdown as a management tool. And when the inmates show proper deference, they MIGHT get to go to the rec yard...

[Uncle Sham]

"So now the lockdowns are simply an exercise in submission? And that when the serfs obey, they may be granted a few privileges?"

This is exactly correct. It will not end well.

[bluejean]

“So now the lockdowns are simply an exercise in submission? And that when the serfs obey, they may be granted a few privileges?”

Seems that is exactly what Witchmer is doing. Actually, maybe that’s what this whole damned thing has been about.