Editing New Caprica Detention Center

[[File:Detention Center.jpg|thumb|right|250px|New Caprica Detention Center during the [[Battle of New Caprica]].]]
The '''New Caprica Detention Center''' is a [[Cylon]] facility on [[New Caprica]], established circa {{ACH|2}} following the [[Cylon Occupation Authority|occupation]] {{TRS|Battlestar Galactica: The Resistance}}.

==Design and Construction==
Physically, it is an imposing concrete structure with a motorized gate of steel bars. It contains facilities for questioning prisoners which are quite reminiscent of police [[w:Interrogation|interrogation]] rooms in the real world; they feature bare concrete walls, a small table, two metal chairs, a metal door with a small window, and harsh overhead lighting from a single source.

===Set Decoration===
The detention center structure was originally designed to serve as new housing for [[New Caprica]] settlers rather than as a prison facility. According to set decorator [[Jonathan Lancaster]], when the structure was only about a quarter built at the end of [[Season 2 (2005-06)|Season 2]], the production team needed to show that the [[Cylons (RDM)|Cylons]] had been present on New Caprica for four to eight months by the time [[Season 3 (2006-07)|Season 3]] began filming. The building was designed to represent an accomplishment that both humans and Cylons could view positively — a structure where "humans and Cylons were looking at it as an accomplishment for them" — before it was repurposed as the detention center seen during the occupation.<ref group="production" name="cairns_bsg_mag_7_lancaster_detention_facility_p24">{{cite magazine|magazine=Battlestar Galactica: The Official Magazine|issue=7|pages=24-25|date=October/November 2006|publisher=[[Titan Magazines]]|title=For Decorative Purposes|author=Bryan Cairns}}</ref>

===Filming Location===
The detention center structure was built and filmed at the production's New Caprica outdoor location near Richmond, British Columbia — the same site used for the entire New Caprica settlement throughout Seasons 2 and 3.<ref group="production" name="battlestarlocations_pdf_new_caprica_richmond_site">{{cite web|url=http://www.battlestarlocations.com/uploads/8/1/0/8/8108293/battlestar_galactica_locations_guide.pdf#:~:text=New%20Caprica%20City%20(Lay%20Down%20Your%20Burdens%20II)%2C%20Richmond%20site%2C%20Blundell%20Road|title=Battlestar Galactica Locations Guide|publisher=battlestarlocations.com|accessdate=30 May 2026}}</ref>

{{callsign|Starbuck}}'s cell within the facility was filmed at the [[Waterfall Building]], 1540 West 2nd Avenue, Vancouver, British Columbia. This is the same room previously used as Kara Thrace's apartment in [[Delphi]] in "[[Valley of Darkness]]" — which is the in-universe explanation for why the cell resembles that apartment.<ref group="production" name="battlestarlocations_pdf_waterfall_kara_cell_occupation">{{cite web|url=http://www.battlestarlocations.com/uploads/8/1/0/8/8108293/battlestar_galactica_locations_guide.pdf#:~:text=Kara%27s%20cell%20(Occupation%2C%20Precipice%2C%20Exodus%20I%20%26%20II)%2C%20Waterfall%20building|title=Battlestar Galactica Locations Guide|publisher=battlestarlocations.com|accessdate=30 May 2026}}</ref>

==Use During Occupation==
It is within this facility that a [[Number Five]] solicits [[James Lyman]] to inform the Cylons on the movements of the [[New Caprica Resistance]] {{TRS|Battlestar Galactica: The Resistance}}.

During the [[Battle of New Caprica]] the prison is stormed by the New Caprica Resistance and [[Colonial Marine Corps|Colonial Marines]] under the command of [[Samuel Anders]] and Gunnery Sergeant [[Erin Mathias]], freeing all its surviving inmates {{TRS|Exodus, Part II}}.

== Notable Inmates ==
[[Saul Tigh]] is incarcerated in the center until his [[Ellen Tigh|wife]] fornicates with a copy of [[Cavil]] as part of an exchange to free her husband. Suspected to be a high ranking member of the Resistance, Saul is tortured extensively, having an eye ripped out during interrogation {{TRS|Occupation}}.

[[Laura Roslin]] is detained briefly while being interviewed by [[Gaius Baltar]] about a [[Tucker Clellan|suicide bombing]] perpetrated by a Resistance member {{TRS|Precipice}}.

{{callsign|Starbuck}} is held captive in a spacious furnished cell where she is forced to live with [[Leoben Conoy]] for the duration of the Cylon occupation, undergoing various forms of psychological abuse for reasons not clarified {{TRS|Occupation}}. The cell is not confirmed to be within the detention center itself until the building is liberated by the resistance {{TRS|Exodus, Part II}}.

==References==
===Production History===
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