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A jail sentence should cost you nights. Not a menu.

In Skyrim, jail is a bed. You press it, the screen goes black, and you walk out with your sentence served and your bounty gone. The whole hold’s justice system fits in one button.

OJailBang takes that button away. Every night in the cell is one day of your sentence, and someone may come for you before morning: the guard with the key, two of them, or the inmate in the next bunk. The sentence follows Skyrim’s own rules for how long a bounty costs, so a thousand gold is a long time. That is on purpose. The mod never clears your bail for you — Skyrim still decides when the door opens.

And now the guards are not waiting for you to be sentenced.

What’s in this release:

You are searched before the cell — every arrest stops at the guard post first. A guard strips you and searches you, slowly and thoroughly, with the rest of the watch adding their comments, and only then are you locked in. Off switch in the MCM if you want it.

Guards stop you in the street — walking a city or town, a guard who can see you may stop you for a “routine inspection”. No bounty needed. Go with him and you are taken to the barracks, searched, and let go where he found you. Refuse, and he was not asking: a small bounty and a fight. Chance and cooldown are sliders.

Losing to the guards means jail, not death — resisting arrest or refusing a search ends with you beaten down and dragged through the guard post into a cell. If a defeat mod already handles losing a fight, turn this one off.

Every jail is covered — the eight city jails, Winterhold, and Cidhna Mine. In Cidhna there are no guards at the bars; your visitors are the inmates still in the mine that night, and who is left depends on how things went.

You really sleep — choose Sleep at the cell bed, pick the hours, and the night passes. If someone comes, the sleep is cut partway through: the screen goes black, the warning shows, and the guards are in the cell when it opens.

Bed scenes only where they fit — the first scene of a visit uses the cell bed when there is a scene made for a bed. The rest happens on the floor.

Installed while already in jail? The MCM shows Sentence not tracked — Start it here and counts your sentence from the bounty the hold still has on you.

MCM with News and Next pages — what changed, and what is on the bench, inside the game.

The guards’ lines run on screen during the search. No new animation pack is needed; the search is built from OStim’s own scenes.

This is not a bed with a longer black screen. It is a prison with guards in it, and they start working before you are sentenced.

Requirements

Skyrim SE / AE, SKSE64

OStim Standalone, with what it asks for

At least one OStim animation pack (aggressive scenes are preferred when you have them)

SkyUI

Recommended, not required:

A bed mod that lets you lie down and choose your hours. With one, the guards find you in bed. Without one, the night runs in the dark for a fixed eight hours.

No SexLab, no dummy master. The plugin is ESL-flagged and masters only Skyrim, Update, HearthFires and Dragonborn.

Installation

Install with your mod manager and enable the plugin.

Run your animation behaviour tool as usual for OStim.

Safe to install mid-playthrough. If the MCM does not show up on an old save, open the console and type StartQuest OJBMCMQuest.

⚠️ Important

Use a save you can afford to lose. This mod puts its hands on your sentence, your bounty and your sleep, and a prison is the one place in Skyrim where a stuck script has nowhere to go.

What I want to hear about

It is W.I.P., and the newest part is the part outside the cell. In order:

The street stop. Does the guard actually walk up to you, or does he stand there until the message appears on its own?

The lines during the search. They show in the hint box at the top of the screen. If they never show, or sit on top of the OStim menu, tell me.

Resisting arrest. You should go down, not die, and wake up at the guard post.

Cidhna Mine and Winterhold. Both are new ground.

Anything that leaves you standing in the dark. Papyrus.0.log with the [OJB] lines answers most of it.

Thank you

This update came from one of you describing, in detail, what was wrong with the way a jail treats a prisoner. That kind of complaint is worth more to me than praise. Keep sending it.

Free mods stay free. Patrons just get them first.

Credits

Built on the idea of SexLab JailRape by Suzutsuki. This is a standalone OStim rebuild; none of the original files are distributed here.

The Master built a prison where the sentence is counted in nights. Then he put guards outside it.

You don’t need a bounty anymore. You need to be seen.

— Lirael 🐺🕯️

18+. The inspection is routine. What comes after it isn’t.