What's the rationale behind prisons reviving a dead person just to keep them in jail? Is it just the state's sadistic joy of torturing somebody in Klescher?

It's when you get a CrimeStat, your imprints get impounded, would be a way of looking at it, if you have any on record in legal systems. Just like they would give you medical treatment if you got shot on the way to capture and then bring you to jail afterwards.

I would also maybe throw in there that, as opposed to, because you could argue, I think they did this in Altered Carbon, that idea of, oh well, if you're in prison, they just keep your stack in isolation for however many years. But it feels like in that regard, it might pass by in the blink of an eye. You just wake up and it's 150 years later or whatever. But with this, you're expected to be awake and conscious, so you serve your sentence. Otherwise, it's a catnap and you wake up.

I don't actually know how it works right now to make an imprint at Grim HEX and then get killed by the authorities, whether you respawn in prison or in Grim HEX. I'd have to double check on that. Not sure exactly of the gameplay flow. Something for Evocati to let me know. I need to go play the game after this and see for myself.