0013470: Sentences for convicts who have left the location are canceled. - Dwarf Fortress Bug Tracker

ID	Project	Category	View Status	Date Submitted	Last Update

0013470	Dwarf Fortress	Adventure Mode -- Crime	public	2026-02-09 07:26	2026-02-09 07:43

Reporter	dimaDETROIT	Assigned To
Priority	normal	Severity	minor	Reproducibility	always
Status	new	Resolution	open
Product Version	53.10

Summary	0013470: Sentences for convicts who have left the location are canceled.
Description	If a convict is a guest of the fortress and for any reason leaves the location before their sentence is carried out, their convict status is reset. This means that the "Convict" tab will show "No decisions yet." Furthermore, when I render a decision on a defendant, the case moves to the "Closed Cases" tab, but when the defendant leaves the location, it returns to the "Open Cases" tab and later to "Old Cases," where it says "Unknown Defendant." As soon as the defendant returns to the location, the case returns to the "Closed Cases" tab, but the defendant's status remains clear—"No decisions yet." It's as if the defendant has already been punished, but judging by the fact that the case constantly moves from closed to open, the defendant has not yet been punished. The investigation shows that if this defendant is killed, the case is closed forever and will never be pursued again. It's incredibly frustrating to watch as the villains and spies who managed to escape return time and again, and my dwarves can do nothing to them except kill them. P.S. I apologize in advance for providing screenshots in Cyrillic, and I hope this won't interfere with our consideration of the issue. I wanted to temporarily disable the Russian language feature, but unfortunately, that causes the font for the nicknames to become corrupted, and I can't correctly determine which defendant is part of the example.
Steps To Reproduce	1. Interrogate the suspect - he confesses to the crime. 2. Declare the suspect guilty. 3. Check the status and see the assigned punishment. 4. Check the status of the case - it will be in the "Closed Cases" tab. 5. Allow the criminal to leave the location. 6. Check the status of the case - it will be in the "Open Cases" tab with the caption "unknown convicted person" https://imgur.com/b3m50iT 7. Check the status of the convicted person - we see that no punishments have been assigned to him. IMPORTANT: the punishments have not been executed, although they were assigned. https://imgur.com/7V1xK9j 8. When the convicted person returns to the location, check the status of the case - it will return to the "Closed Cases" tab. Also check the status of the convicted person - his status is also clear and there are no assigned punishments. https://imgur.com/a/ZHsRTdZ https://imgur.com/7V1xK9j
Additional Information	What corrections are expected: 1. The status of the convict should remain until the sentence is carried out, even if the convict has escaped from the location. When the convict returns, the assigned guard should carry out the sentence. 2. The case should not be closed until the sentence is carried out, or it should be possible to reopen the case. Alternatively, the case should not be returned to the status of open.
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Date Modified	Username	Field	Change
2026-02-09 07:26	dimaDETROIT	New Issue
2026-02-09 07:43	dimaDETROIT	Note Added: 0043165