Lyle Bolton, Head of Security at Arkham Asylum.

Feel free to ask your questions.

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I apologise for my moment of absence

SOMEONE decided to spike my drink full fear toxin but because I respect the privacy of the inmates I’m NOT going to name names. Anyways, yeah, I was in ER for a few weeks because of that so, sorry. Nothing of note happened beyond that though I hear Riddler might be getting out on parole soon and we have a new patient, a Mister…. Egghead? Jesus where the hell are they coming up with these names.

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while I have a moment of free time…

I’d like to thank you all for taking the time to visit this blog of mine.

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The only crime I want to solve is education inequality

A good cause, best of luck with that.

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Don’t tell Ivy I stole her lavender flowers…THEY ARE MY FAVORITE FLOWER OKAY

I'm pretty sure any flowers interacted by Ivy are considered police evidence and since she's locked up here it's the police you have to worry about now anon.

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Is art therapy encouraged at Arkham? If so, who makes the most use of it?

This is more of a question for the doctors, I don't really pay all that much attention to the prisoners who have the privileges necessary to gain access to the art room or have some art supplies delivered to their rooms as most of them are low-priority threats.

But yeah, it's very encouraged here. Not only does it help us try to understand the more deluded prisoners but there's been talk about auctioning some of the paintings, with the patient's permission of course, so that they can raise awareness and hopefully get more funding for more activities that I'll no doubt shoot down because they're gonna be massive security threats. Like that one time, some moron proposed the idea of having fireworks for the 4th. I swear sometimes these people forget that this place houses some of the brightest and dangerous madmen on the planet.

However, I don't think I can divulge exactly who makes the most use of it without intruding on the doctor-patient confidentiality thing. I'm already in a bit of hot water with Doctor Arkham and I wouldn't want him or the other doctors to start trying to hide things from me about their patients so I'll have to lay off on the latter part of that question.

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What are Harley Quinn and Poison Ivy like as prisoners? Do any special measures have to be taken?

With Harley? Not at all, she pretty goes through the standard procedure most of the normal prisoners go through. As I said before, she’s housed in the general area of the asylum due to her low risk to security and general good behaviour aside from the occasional “prank” towards the security staff. Namely me.

But that‘s besides the point, Harley is admirable as a prisoner which many of the others could learn from .

Ivy in the other hand is obviously much trickier. As some of you might be aware, Ivy is classified as a metahuman due to her mind control abilities through physical contact. The staff assigned to dealing with her have been trained to resist the attempts not that it would matter much since they are equipped with the best hazmat suits money can buy as the inhibitor collar she wears doesn’t do much to stop her abilities. Her cell is equipped with Fluorescent lights to accommodate for her unique biology as without them she is unable to photosynthesise which, according to her, is “VERY uncomfortable” and can lead to many health issues. She is also of course fed a full vegetarian meal three times a day, just like any other prisoner. Ivy’s cell is also regularly ventilated to remove the pheromones she produces.

Her progress with the doctors has been poor, she still hates humans and still claims she can feel the plant’s pain which was something that we proved as all in her head. So yeah, not much going on with her there. You can take a wild guess as to how she is with security. She greatly enjoys playing around with them whenever she gets the chance to and is purposefully in cooperative in order to provoke responses from the guards or get them close to attempt to use her abilities on them.

I’d delve into their relationship and how that too is taken into account but that’s delving into their personal information which the doctor‘s frown upon. And so there you have it, Harley Quinn and Pamela Isley. Not the only females housed in here but certainly among the more famous of the bunch. Hope this answer was to your liking and I apologize if it’s a bit wordy, there’s been reports of another attempted break-out by Julian Day on accounts of National Lottery Day coming up which SOMEONE, not naming any names, let it slip that that holiday was coming up so I’ve been working hard to make sure he doesn’t slip out again and it’s resulted in me loosing some sleep.

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What's it like dealing with Bane and Croc? Who's stronger/harder to handle?

Lots of questions here, I'll work my way through them starting with easier one of these to answer: Bane.

Now the thing with Bane is that he has never been arrested for his acts of terrorism on Gotham and has fled back to wherever the hell he's from. Even if he was arrested I doubt he'd qualify for this place, his actions are far too calculated to argue the insanity plea. Even in this city. That being said, he has been to the asylum before. During his crime spree, he blew a hole in the place and it caused a mass breakout that allowed various prisoners to escape into Gotham. All this happened before my time here of course, with Arkham's terrible security measures frankly I'm surprised this didn't happen sooner. I am very confident when I say that we could handle something like this now with the more updated security of the asylum. Not that I'm encouraging Bane or any would-be bomber to attempt this of course. Now, purely hypothetically speaking, if Bane were apprehended and brought here I reckon he wouldn't be too difficult to manage. Obviously, due to his experience and connections, he'd be housed in maximum security with the rest of the dangerous and volatile prisoners. His steroid would be recreated by our chemists and given to him in small doses, just enough to keep him going as we are aware of his addiction. And from there it's standard procedure, searches the cell for any contraband daily, gives him his food, etc. Then the doctors can get to work in finding all the horrible things that happened in his life, cure him and his addiction,,,, and then we can send him on his merry way to Blackgate where he can do the rest of his sentence.

Overall not an extremely difficult inmate to deal with, though of course,,,, we're always careful here with the high-risk patients.

Speaking of which, let's talk about Waylon. Now "Killer Croc" is a special case of a high-risk patient, he is a metahuman which means he is housed in the lower levels of the asylum. We call this area "The Basement". This area houses most of the metahuman prisoners and is the most updated part of the asylum, completed with various labs for our research teams to develop counters to these super criminal's abilities. Each prisoner here is fitted with an inhibitor collar of course but supplying the authorities with the necessary means of dealing with them should they get out is reasonable. Some prisoners, like Killer Croc, require specialized cells. His cell is fitted with a small pool of warm water which keeps him calm while he's in the cell. Which, needless to say, is VERY good for us. But anyways this isn't a tour, moving on to the procedures with Waylon for a moment:

The standard stuff is to give him his food which due to his.... unique diet is mostly meat. Two to three times a day as is the norm. Since Waylon can't really do much from within his cell it's not necessary or recommended to enter the cell while he's in there, when we need to go in we simply knock him out with harmless drugs through the cell's filtration system. We then do what we need to do, usually just a simple cleaning,,,, and then leave him alone. To prevent any accidents his inhibitor collar is fitted with a shock implant. Waylon does have an assigned doctor but little to no progress seems to be made, he's still the same old crazy crocodile man I knew as when I first met him.

As for what Waylon is like. Weeeeeeell that's a bit tricky to explain as his mood can shift drastically from just an angry bastard that just wants to be left alone to a wild animal that... also wants to be left alone but in this state is where his cannibalistic tendencies rise to the extreme as he will attempt to kill and eat anyone in his cell. Just recently one of the feeding crew almost got pulled into his cell by Waylon because, according to him, "He was getting tired of the same old meat and wanted something different".

Also considering that he ate my predecessor's hand, well- I'm not taking any chances with prisoners like Waylon.

As for your "Who would win in a fight" question, as security our job is to prevent violent confrontation between patients not encourage it. However! Purely for the question's sake? My money's on Waylon.

Sooo yeah that's both of them hopefully that answer's satisfactory and if there's anything you need me to elaborate on just let me know.

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What did you major in college ?

Was slow on this one, my bad.

I majored in mechanics and engineering but opted into enrolling in the police academy when job's in those regions became boring.

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I apologise if this is a bit of an unusual or weird question but what would you do if you found a patient was being abused by either another guard or doctor?

Nah that's fine, with the recent accusations Arkham's been faced with I'm surprised my inbox wasn't full of this line of questions the moment I made this blog.

As you know or can probably guess, as Head of Security at the Asylum it's not only my job to make sure that the prisoners don't get out but to also ensure their own personal wellbeing and safety while they receive treatment. I've received my fair share of harassment complaints from both patient and doctor. All proven false, for the record. But anyways - The standard response to these matters is to separate truth from fiction and, depending on the severity of the situation, suspend or fire the employee accordingly. I will say however that firing employees isn't part of my job. That wonderful task falls on Mr. Sharp's lap.

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Happy Pride Month

Enjoy yourselves, don’t do crime.

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Do you like Star Wars ?

Too slow paced for my liking, if I have the free time to watch a movie I prefer one that's fast and straight to the point. Simple stuff, I guess is the best way to say it.

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Soooooooooo you ever considered any other methods to keep the rogues in line? I know you use restrains and electricity but is there anything more... Violent, shall I say?

First of all the electricity and restraints are rumors that I have continuously shot down. I treat them with the same kind of respect and dignity that they deserve. As for your question we have procedures when it comes to dealing with some of the more dangerous inmates, such as Waylon Jones, Kirk Langstrom or the Joker. They require more strict measures when it comes to keeping them in line. Measures that I cannot go into detail about at this point in time.

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I have the biggest crush on Crane THERE I SAID IT I’m into smart and crazy !

And psychotic and sadistic and- y’know there’s a lot of words that could describe Crane now that I think about it

Sorry to crush your dreams I highly doubt Crane would return the sentiment

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Have you ever considered on trying to be a bit nicer to the inmates?

.... Again, almost everyone who is housed in here is a violent serial offender. You want me to be nice to Zsasz? Or even Joker?

If so congrats, you’re stupid. These maniacs will pick you apart and take every advantage they can if you show them any kind of weakness and believe me kid, they look for one.

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Lyle Bolton’s nickname is Bolty

No it’s not. My nickname usually fluctuates between several bad words that I’m not particularly inclined to type out at this point in time.

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A polite reminder that you stink and I hope you rot in that cell. Regards, Bolton

My goodness, how pitifully juvenile of you.

You're rather a gnat for my attention, aren't you?

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You know it, sweetums.

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Cute.

Don't you have actual work to do other than galumphing around like gorilla in a zoo exhibit?

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No, actually. I’m on my break so I have all the time in the world to monitor you, Crane.

And there’s no need to thank me for it, by the way. The pride I have in my work is more than enough thanks

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