State Correctional Island

State Correctional Island features State Correctional Castle, built by Count Igo Schlappovski, Bügoslavian royalty's least memorable son and founding father of Slappytown. The castle features over 750,000 blocks of granite that were hand-picked, hand-carved and hand-carried by loyal serfs of the Schlappovski royal family all the way from the great granite pits of western Bügoslavia to the shores of the Big Sucker River.

Though the count began building Castle Schlappovski in the summer of 1867, he never lived long enough to live there—the castle refused to live up to his picayune standards. He finally did attempt to move in on his 104th birthday in 1928. Along with his only son and heir, Schlomo Schlappovski, fourteen grandchildren and eighty-seven great-grandchildren, Count Schlappovski boarded a ferry boat to take him to his new home. But halfway across the Big Sucker, the ferry foundered under the familial weight and sank like a stone. Miracuously, all survived ... except Count Schlappovski, who's body was never recovered.

"He's down there with the Big Suckers now," said Schlomo, who immediately put the castle up for sale. It was purchased by the State Government, who converted the venerable edifice into a penal institution. "Somehow, I think it's fitting," said Schlomo, the new Count Schlappovski. "For 60 years Dad was its prisoner."

State Correctional Island occupied the rock for the next thirty-three years, and boasted several famous inmates, like Al Capone (on an overnight stay) and Baby Face Nelson (again, overnight; SCI was often used as a kind of criminal “hotel” because of its midway proximity between major metropolitan prisons). Its most celebrated lifer, Slippery Jim Johnson, was a wild, murderous bank robber, who had the destinction of escaping from SCI three times before he was finally executed there in 1957.

A mandate from President Kennedy closed the prison in 1961, and State Correctional Island fell into a period of disrepair and neglect.