The Cage of Nuctroff

The Cage of Nuctroff is a damp, dark, and dismal prison cell. It is built into the basement of Nuctroff City Hall, accesible by a trap door that only Ministry Officials know the location of. Inmates are generally tranquilized or otherwise incapacitated in order to ensure the secrecy of the trap door location, which is situated underneath a large, granite statue of the Ministry seal. In actuality, the statue is hollow and easily moveable.

The Cage is a series of small, cramped cells, constituting nothing more than enchanted and unbreakable brick floors, three walls, an iron-bar door, and a rusty cot. The tiny rooms of imprisonment threaten their victims with insanity, particularly the werewolves. Ex-inmates have been known to speak about different types of torture that they endured, including sickly potions, jinxes, as well as stylized punishment, such as forcing vampires into a cell that's been enchanted with sunlight, gradually making them quite ill.

The werewolves and vampires brought to the Cage are forced to stay for varying lengths of time depending on their crime. The Ministry views punishable crimes as anything from malicious gossip against the Ministry to an attempted, unapproved escape from Nuctroff. A list of laws can be found posted outside of Nuctroff Hall.