Hughes shook his head. Now that was idealism. Guy'd been here for ten days already and still asking if people had escaped.

"Dead or disappeared," Hughes said with a small sigh. "People go missing and no one knows what happened to them. A couple of them were apparently 'rehabilitated' and 'released'. Some folks have even seen them back here, for visiting hours. They're different people, fully convinced they were never prisoners, never had a life beforehand. It's damn messed up, all this psychological brain washing. But everything they do here is deigned to make us dependent on them anyway, so..."

He shrugged. He could see, from a detached stance, how it could work. Why, he still had no idea.