User blog comment:Pawn of Atlas/Contradictions about Fontaine's and Drinkable Plasmids/@comment-1500935-20140505140402/@comment-3967731-20140506215822

User:75.36.136.164 you're being a little bit naive about this. Even in real life, people break "society's laws" and we don't just exile them.

As for where they were temporarily housed for the interim period, Rapture probably had a jail (maybe at Central Administration). Unlike a prison, which is were convicts go to serve their sentence, a lock-up just houses people until their trial. I'm also willing to bet that this jail was woefully under equipped to house the number of prisoners alligned with Fontaine (Hell, the Wharfmaster's Office only had two cells). It's like Sinclair said in Selling Ryan Short "Technically, Utopia shouldn't have much use for a detention facility." The worst they'd ever expect is a normal lawsuit against companies or perhaps an accidnetal homicide (they'd never expect the massive criminal organization would take route in their paradise), and so they hastily converted the Dept. Store to hold them all to take care of the massive overcrowding.

At least User:Pauolo is trying to come up with a solution to this fuck up the designers created. They NEVER should have put precise dates on these diaries.