Prisión en Ganimedes

# Prison on Ganymede

This science-fiction novel by A. Thorkent concerns a penal mining colony. Prison director Horker receives television journalist Brenda Lake at Creta II, a Martian facility where convicts—mostly volunteers serving reduced sentences in exchange for dangerous radioactive mining work—labor under armed guards. Horker defends the operation's safety record and living conditions while Brenda probes whether equipment standards match private mining operations and questions profit-sharing arrangements between Earth and Martian governments. She reveals knowledge of a secret shipment: 200 convicts, mostly murderers with sentences exceeding twenty years, departing tomorrow for a new mining operation on Ganymede. Among the miners is Damian Duque, whose cooling suit malfunctions while he extracts blue-flecked ore. Fellow prisoner Tom, temporarily assigned material duties, warns of rumored transfers to Jupiter's moons as experimental labor. The narrative contrasts official reassurances with dangerous working conditions and the convicts' grim prospects.