Republic City prison


 * This article is about the prison located in the Republic City. For other similar uses, see Prisons (disambiguation).

The Republic City Prison is a large, fortified building located in e Republic City, where various criminals are kept.

History
The prison was built by Varrick Global Industries, somewhat before 171 AG.

Because his company had built the prison, Varrick had commissioned a luxurious jail cell to be included in the design, as he predicted he would end up there one day. As such, he was imprisoned after the police tied him with the bombing of the Southern Water Tribe Cultural Center. He was surrounded by wealth, as well Zhu Li, who never left his side and continued to serve him.

When the Dark Avatar was laying waste to the city, the wall of Varrick's cell was destroyed by one of the huge vines. Seeing his chance to escape, Varrick ordered Zhu Li to commence operation "Winged Freedom", which meant that she was to strap a backpack containing wings to her back and hold on to him, enabling them both to soar out of the prison to freedom during the chaos.

Another inmate of the prison was Hiroshi Sato, who began to write letters to his daughter, Asami Sato, and asked her to come visit him in prison. When she did, he was glad to see her again, though grew saddened upon realizing that she had never opened his letters. As Asami moved to leave after ordering him to stop contacting her, he reached out to his daughter, imploring her to listen to what he had to say. As she sat back down, he acknowledged that he had done horrible things for which he could never forgive himself or hope to be forgiven for, as he had destroyed his family and their good name.

Hiroshi was surprised to be led back to the visitor's area and find Asami there waiting for him. Although Asami was unsure she would be able to ever forgive him, she was willing to try and Hiroshi was asked to play a game of Pai Sho with her for old time's sake.

Layout
The prison was a quite large building located in Republic City, being comprised by several floors. It had many prison cells, even one luxurious one, built for Varrick. The prison also had at least one visitor's area, where inmates could talk to their family and friends.

A distict feature of the prison are the Spirit Vines, that grew over the fasade, afte the Harmonic Convergence.