The Relationship Between Traitors and the HoS

[Sundance]

Unpopular opinion: Even the Gestapo is more fun than the hugbox.

More fun for whom?
The entire reasoning behind the shift was because the Gestapo was unfun for the traitors, as people were tired of their rounds being cut short by zealous shithead officers.
Besides, my argument wasn't that either the gestapo/hugbox were good, I was stating that both were bad. We need a happy medium.

I'd hoped putting VR stuff, mail, computers and stuff in the brig would give prisoners something to do.

This is all dandy, but again the brig is not used because of the reasons that I previously highlighted.
Example: Why bother using ANY of the stuff when the disposal chute is literally one window away. Not only that, but prisoners don't even get shocked anymore with exposed wires. I'd prefer if the brig was a combination of mushroom and what we have. Not crappy and suicidal box prisons for 1, nor big open prisons , but more like actual prisons, fit for 2 people so you can interact with your prison chump, basically force a player to interact with another for both good and bad effects.

Maybe we should revise the general suggested arrest times upwards a little. <5min seems laughably pointless, but obviously Bay's 1-4 hour sentences won't work.

Again, this is due the fallacies of the brig. What's laughably pointless is actually brigging prisoners right now.
With regards of the time, I think 5 minutes is actually fine. When you think about it, the arresting..the stripping..the questioning..followed by the actual brigging and then followed by the prisoner sorting his shit out afterwards, it's actually about 10 minutes. That's actually kinda long seen as most rounds last 45-50 minutes.
The brigging time isn't anything to do with actual punishment imo. It's meant for segregation "well, that's that guy outta the way for a few minutes, lets deal with the mess he's caused i.e: Explosions, cloning, etc". If you are raising the brig time with the intent to punish the crimer, it's a bad move.