Arkham Asylum

## Background

Arkham Asylum is a mental institution & prison complex. It is located on the outskirts of Gotham, on Arkham Island. Although it has had numerous administrators, its current head is Jeremiah Arkham.

It mostly operated as a mental institution until Blackgate Penitentiary was destroyed during The Cataclysm. Since then, it has taken in patients & criminals from Gotham, as well as the neighboring cities of Blüdhaven & Metropolis. In 2010, it was given another expansion after Belle Reve Penitentiary was shut down for corruption. Now operating as the only prison to house enhanced individuals, ARGUS stepped in to run the prison complex.

Jeremiah Arkham has installed the most state-of-the-art security measures when he took control of the asylum. Video recorders were installed in every room & a corridor with two guards stationed on every level twenty-four hours a day to discourage bribery. Even Arkham himself was required to present identification to access various levels of the hospital. All exterior windows at Arkham were installed with heat detectors & microwave motion detectors. Magnetic foils in the walls were used to block radio waves from penetrating locked cells. Although security protocols were highly efficient, they were not foolproof. The Asylum does not have a good record, at least with regard to the high profile cases & escapes are frequent, and those who are 'cured' & released tend to re-offend.

## Points of Interest

**Visitor Center:** It is designed for relatives to be able to visit patients under close surveillance by security. The Visitor's Center has multiple booths separated by glass for the patients & visitors to speak through.

**Intensive Treatment Center**: Located in the center of Arkham Island. The center held a number of patients with extreme personalities & those with highly severe psychological & physical illnesses. It is one of the island's most highly secure buildings where patients are first admitted for initial assessments.

* **Extreme Isolation Center:** It houses the most dangerous of inmates. It is nearly inescapable as it only accessed through a high-security, metal transfer box. The entrance is guarded by heavily armed security guards at all times.

**Medical Facility**: It is one of the primary locations for the inmates to receive physical treatment. There is an x-ray room, a patient observation room & a surgery room. It is a newer addition the asylum.

**Penitentiary**: It is the primary location for incarceration. It houses an extreme variety of inmates in different cells to meet their needs. In the center, cells for the Arkham Lunatics were located which lead into various wings.

* **The Green Mile**
* **Security Control Room**
* **Extreme Incarceration Cells**

**The Botanical Gardens:** It functions as a place of leisure for inmates during their free time. Some doctors would also come here to study biological research.

**Arkham Asylum's Underside:** Located underneath the surface of Arkham Asylum. It is accessible through the Intensive Treatment Center elevator or through an abandoned door leading from Arkham North. It usually only visited by the Arkham Staff to assess, incarcerate or treat Killer Croc.

## Staff

* Director: Jeremiah Arkham
* Warden: Quincy Sharp
* Board of Directors: Bruce Wayne
* Medical Researcher: Charles Nigaff
* Psychiatrists
	+ Chief Psychiatrist: Hugo Strange
	+ Intake Coordinator: Mahreen Zaheer
	+ Psychiatrists: Penelope Young, Sarah Cassidy, Alyce Sinner, Stephen Kellerman, Ian Kennedy, Joan Leland, Gretchen Whistler
* Criminal Profiler: Kassidy Sage
* Chief of Security: Aaron Cash
* Security Officers: Lyle Bolton, Maria Andrade, Eddie Burlow, Zach Franklin, Louie Green, William North

## Trivia

* The Arkham Mansion is also located on the island.
* The place has been reconstructed many times over the years. With Blackgate destroyed & the city in ruins during No Man's Land, the city used this as an opportunity to expand. Financed by Wayne Enterprises, they were able to create more separation between those there as patients vs inmates.
* Since the closing of Blackgate then Belle Reve, it is the only place other than Stryker's Island that is equipped to house enhanced individuals.

## Notes

* Blackgate had had multiples mass escapes through the comics. It was also destroyed during the Cataclysm.
* Closing Belle Reve is a nod to roysovitch's Earth-27.