Maximum-security prison facility located several miles up the Conquin River from the City. Built in 1870 by Ephraim Holdwright, an eccentric architect with more than a passing interest in sacred geometry and other occult subjects. Its forboding, gothic architecture is something of a tourist curiosity, although currently no tours are allowed inside the facility.
Conquin State has long been notorious for its overcrowded and — some accuse — inhumane conditions. The prison continued to use the electric chair for executions for several years after the state mandated lethal injection, and the electrocution facilities, including the infamous chair, are still intact and operational, although they are no longer used. Suggestions for reform are often voiced at the state government level, but none have followed through.
On September 9, 1998, a group of government agents and scientists led by Samuel Magabe and Masato Takeichi performed a covert experiment on the inmates of the prison's death row ward (known as "D-Block"). After being offered their freedom in exchange for cooperation and secrecy, the inmates were strapped down and injected with an early, untested form of pigment. Several patients died, but six successfully projected. These six were Uriah Bishop, Reyo Antonio Sanchez, Malcolm Hyde, Darryl and Emmet Milton, and Terrence Greene. When the experiment concluded, the six inmates were ordered back into their bodies. They refused and fled. The government agents then set fire to D-Block, destroying the bodies and evidence, and killing the six test subjects, leaving them ghosts.
In the spirit world, Conquin State Prison has been almost entirely converted into one massive spectral hive, and most ghosts stay well clear of it.