Talk:Hiram Lodge/@comment-30564209-20180316000417/@comment-27980470-20200124213458

I think the reason Hiram spent so much time and money building the prison becomes clear at the end of Season 3. At the end of Season 3, Hiram is arrested and sent to the Lodge Detention Center, where we find out that because Hiram owns the prison, all of the guards and staff are loyal to him; therefore he can pretty much come and go whenever he wants. Then during Season 4, Hiram is ultimately released from the prison, which remains under his control. The reason that Hiram built the prison isn't really for the money (although I suppose that does matter to him); the prison is basically Hiram's failsafe. If Hiram is arrested again, then he'll just be sent right back to the Lodge Detention Center, where he can continue to run his criminal empire from behind the scenes, until he eventually finds a way to be released again, so the whole thing can start ALL OVER AGAIN. When Hiram was locked up there, the Lodge Detention Center wasn't really a prison for him; it was really just a new base of operations. As long as Hiram still has that God-forsaken prison under his control, he will always be able to keep coming back, to continue to try to take over Riverdale, no matter HOW MANY times he gets arrested. He's basically unstoppable at this point. The only way to truly defeat Hiram Lodge is to kill him.