I think it's this bit here that made the document uploader freak out and assume I wanted the whole chapter in italics. Ah well. Keep reading guys!
Extract taken from Abstergo Employee Handbook, Edition 509 – Section 646 – The Perfect Prison.
Prisons and the concept of captivity have somewhat evolved with humanity. They started off as horrible, dank things – with rats and human waste and the certainty of a rope with your name on it waiting for you outside. And with humanity at the peek of its intelligence in 2012 – prisons have become something new and unique.
They're mind games.
Nowadays, good prisons provide the means to let their captives drive themselves mad all by themselves. And there's no one else in the world who knows how to do this like Abstergo. We've got a good ethos when it comes to psychological terror.
First, you have to consider the lighting – and any good employee knows that white's the way to go. A bright, harsh white that stuns your prisoner everywhere they look – and in those brief few seconds when the mind is dazed, the tiny vessels behind the wide eyes provide the shadows that aren't there. The brain makes them into any shape they fancy. Give it a week or so, and your prisoner will start to see things that aren't there.
But what should the prison be made of? Well that's easy – glass. The prisoner can see out into the world they won't be stepping into anytime soon, and get that wonderful feeling of being trapped by invisible forces. The sure way to madness and to loose tongues and wills. So what do we have so far? A glass box in a white room. Perfect. Oh, and don't forget to install a door at the end, locked with a pass code and a guard standing in front of it with maybe a pistol. Just that, you say? One measly guard and once guessable pass code? You forget where you are – you're in Abstergo! And its quality over quantity here. No – the prisoner knows that we don't need anything more than a pass code and a guard. They know that if they set a foot out of their little glass box, all forces of a modern hell will be on them in an instant, and death'll be a mercy. Now that's the Abstergo treatment. Now, don't forget the finishing touches of the black prisoner's uniform, simple sanitary means and a nice cot with one pillow and a blanket, and the mind will do the rest.
Congratulations! You have an Abstergo quality prison!
ONWARDS FRIENDS, TO THE LAST ONE!