The people of Goodsprings are still of no concern to them. And true to form, if you find yourself helping out the NCR near Vegas, there is no mention of the prisoners.
This is how the game communicates to you that the NCR is overstretched, it shows you the real consequences on the people it neglects. don’t even know how to pronounce Caesar) but escaped prisoners from a nearby NCR prison. On the flip side, there’s the starting area, Goodsprings, where the biggest concern isn’t the slavers on the other side of the river (Easy Pete and co.
