When you think of a prison, what do you imagine? Bars and bars, cells and cells, and toilets. Nasty, nasty toilets.
Not this prison. This prison is disguised as one, but truly isn’t a prison that comes to mind. It is a prison of the mind, to be quite frank. It’s a mental asylum, though it’s not all foamed down nor are there crazy mental patients. It’s a lab of technology designed to ensnare the senses and send them spiraling away into their mentality. It’s a cool way to figure out what’s wrong mentally with one’s mind or mental state.
But you (the characters) don’t see it like that. They want to escape, they want to flee from the whirring tech.