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Old 09-12-2007, 08:36 AM   #203
Radar
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Originally Posted by glatt View Post
What's the point of that? From the prisoner's point of view, they climb into the tank, sleep a bit, and then they climb out again and are set free. They don't experience the loss of freedom or the loss of time. There's little punishment there. Sure, society will benefit because the dangerous prisoners are kept out of society, but if the prisoners will be released again, there's no punishment component. Also no rehabilitation.

The prisons of the future should prepare the prisoner to be released back into society and give that prisoner the tools to succeed once that happens.
You wake up and everyone you know is either really old or dead. You can't communicate well, have no cultural references, etc. and if yourj brain were active the whole time, it would really suck.
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