User blog comment:Pawn of Atlas/Contradictions about Fontaine's and Drinkable Plasmids/@comment-1500935-20140505140402/@comment-3967731-20140507231159

Exile: the state of being barred from one's native country, typically for political or punitive reasons. Exile means banishment not the removal from society, that's prison. If they were to be exiled from Rapture, that'd mean sending them to the surface.

I don't know where you got the idea that I "asserted that Persephone was just thrown together." I was simply stating that Rapture, when it was first created, clearly didn't build a normal prison facility to house the number of people convicted in association with Fontaine. LIKE SINCLAIR SAID paradise shouldn't need a prison. Sure they probably had a jail of some sort, but they didn't expect there to be a problem of this magnitude.

Maybe you've forgotten, Persephone is supposed to be a secret. It's a detention facility where Ryan has political dissidents locked away so they don't expose the cracks in society. It's conceivable that a few protesters could go be disappeared without the populace noticing, but the couple hundred of people from the smuggling ring? Not likely! These are peoples' friends, coworkers, neighbors. People would talk, grow suspicious, more trouble would be created. Clearly they'd have to be held in a public place to be made an example of.

Don't bark at me for the makers of Burial at Sea messing up the logic, I'm just trying to make sense of it now that it's there and there's nothing we can do about it.