Putting Prisoner's in 'Stasis' to Serve Their Sentence

[BrokenVisage]

If you've seen Demolition Man or Minority Report you know what I'm talking about. I've always wondered if this would actually be something we could achieve one day, not to mention getting it through congress which would be a feat itself. So what do you think, or am I just crazy?

1) Do you think it will one day be scientificly possible?
2) Do you think our (USA) government would ever allow it?
3) Would you be for or against it if ever implemented? Special cases only perhaps?
4) If for, would you support some form of mind regression or retooling?

 

[dighn]

You know, I'm not sure how it would be a punishment. It's would be like taking a very long nap. In fact I think you could almost look at it as free time travel.

 

[Ayah]

I don't think it'd be effective at all. The death sentance seems to be more efficient.

 

[Quasmo]

bingo

 

[Cuda1447]

Death Penalty FTW.

 

[1sikbITCH]

Its not economically viable to spend millions of dollars keeping for instance a mass murderer on ice as some sort of punishment just to bring him back later. Better just to just eliminate him and move on. Now if you want to tie him down, make him eat lots of LSD and PCP and then make him go crazy, then set him on fire while pouring acid on his nuts then yeah, sounds like a plan.

 

[zerocool1]

Originally posted by: dighn
You know, I'm not sure how it would be a punishment. It's would be like taking a very long nap. In fact I think you could almost look at it as free time travel.

everybody you'd have ever cared about would be dead.
society would have completely changed so nothing would make sense.

 

[SlitheryDee]

1) If we can figure out how to freeze someone fast enough to keep ice crystals from grinding their cells to bits then sure.

2) Depends on how expensive it is to implement. Seems like the storage of frozen criminals could be much more dense than in current prisons, requiring fewer facilities. Add to that the fact that the state wouldn't have to feed, clothe, or do anything for the criminals besides keep them frozen until their sentences is up makes it seem like it could be cheaper in the long term. You'd also have to take into account the fact that there could be malfunctions in freezing process which causes deaths. If you have a chance of being killed by the process this could lead to public outcry and hinder it's adoption.

3) I'd say special cases only.

4) Definitely. One of the functions of the current prison system is to punish the criminals and hopefully make them come out desiring to be better citizens simply because they don't want to go back to prison. If you "just" freeze someone then they could finish their sentence in what to them would seem like a night's rest. Something should be added to replace the missing experience of being in prison, though it doesn't have to be punishment. Perhaps a gentle "retooling" as you put it.

 

[dighn]

Originally posted by: zerocool1

Originally posted by: dighn
You know, I'm not sure how it would be a punishment. It's would be like taking a very long nap. In fact I think you could almost look at it as free time travel.

everybody you'd have ever cared about would be dead.
society would have completely changed so nothing would make sense.

The biggest criminals don't seem like they care about anyone. As for the second point, it could go either way (good/bad).

 

[OSX]

The point of jail is so that you can think about what you've done. If you just spend your time on ice, it's pointless.

 

[potato28]

It would be fine, but what would the regular prisinors learn from it? Go to jail to get a free 2 year nap! Actually that sounds really comfortable

 

[SlitheryDee]

Originally posted by: potato28
It would be fine, but what would the regular prisinors learn from it? Go to jail to get a free 2 year nap! Actually that sounds really comfortable

Yeah but that's where the "retooling" comes in. Staying in a prison generally changes people for the worse anyway.

 

[FallenHero]

It would make my life much easier, but at the same time...whats the point of punishing them? They don't learn anything...the world passes them by, sure, but they don't sit there and rot.

 

[everman]

I prefer the idea of hooking the prisoner up to a system that will make them have a sort of "nightmare" where they literally feel like they spend 50+ years of hard labor, and then wake up a couple hours later. They have all of the 50+ years of memories just as it was real, more real than any dream or nightmare. This was in a movie somewhere...

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Originally posted by: everman
I prefer the idea of hooking the prisoner up to a system that will make them have a sort of "nightmare" where they literally feel like they spend 50+ years of hard labor, and then wake up a couple hours later. They have all of the 50+ years of memories just as it was real, more real than any dream or nightmare. This was in a movie somewhere...

And what happens after that?

 

[Goosemaster]

Originally posted by: HamburgerBoy

Originally posted by: everman
I prefer the idea of hooking the prisoner up to a system that will make them have a sort of "nightmare" where they literally feel like they spend 50+ years of hard labor, and then wake up a couple hours later. They have all of the 50+ years of memories just as it was real, more real than any dream or nightmare. This was in a movie somewhere...

And what happens after that?

They can build my stone walkway up to my $30mill house 2 miles from the street and it won't be a biggie for them....

 

[RaistlinZ]

Um, yeah... lets spend hundreds of millions of dollars developing a system to cryogenically freeze inmates so we can release them back to society in the future. Yeah, that seems to be the best way to spend tax payer dollars.

 

[Injury]

Originally posted by: RaistlinZ
Um, yeah... lets spend hundreds of millions of dollars developing a system to cryogenically freeze inmates so we can release them back to society in the future. Yeah, that seems to be the best way to spend tax payer dollars.

Now if we could set it up so they still age, and release people back as old feeble men and women, that might do something.

Sorta like an induced long-sustained coma or something... but more surefire and low to no maintenaince, so we could like, stack them in boxes on a shelf or something.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Originally posted by: Injury
Now if we could set it up so they still age, and release people back as old feeble men and women, that might do something.

Sorta like an induced long-sustained coma or something... but more surefire and low to no maintenaince, so we could like, stack them in boxes on a shelf or something.

What's the point? Just put a bullet through their useless skulls.

 

[Lonyo]

Originally posted by: everman
I prefer the idea of hooking the prisoner up to a system that will make them have a sort of "nightmare" where they literally feel like they spend 50+ years of hard labor, and then wake up a couple hours later. They have all of the 50+ years of memories just as it was real, more real than any dream or nightmare. This was in a movie somewhere...

Clockwork Orange style?

 

[Jeff7]

Originally posted by: everman
I prefer the idea of hooking the prisoner up to a system that will make them have a sort of "nightmare" where they literally feel like they spend 50+ years of hard labor, and then wake up a couple hours later. They have all of the 50+ years of memories just as it was real, more real than any dream or nightmare. This was in a movie somewhere...

Episode of Deep Space Nine. O'Brien lived a few years in a prison in a matter of hours thanks to some neural interface thingy. He'd accidentally triggered some computer security device, and the aliens he was working with thought he was spying, so he was sentence and punished quite promptly.

 

[rhino56]

bury them so their head is only exposed and release the hungry ants. thats a better idea.

 

[wazzledoozle]

Originally posted by: everman
I prefer the idea of hooking the prisoner up to a system that will make them have a sort of "nightmare" where they literally feel like they spend 50+ years of hard labor, and then wake up a couple hours later. They have all of the 50+ years of memories just as it was real, more real than any dream or nightmare. This was in a movie somewhere...

It was an episode of the outer limits. I like the idea.

 

[Injury]

Originally posted by: HamburgerBoy

Originally posted by: Injury
Now if we could set it up so they still age, and release people back as old feeble men and women, that might do something.

Sorta like an induced long-sustained coma or something... but more surefire and low to no maintenaince, so we could like, stack them in boxes on a shelf or something.

What's the point? Just put a bullet through their useless skulls.

Because too many people think that it's more justifiable to raise taxes to build prisons and feed this wastes to society just because killing them is apparently cruel and we don't have that right.

 

[PingSpike]

Originally posted by: dighn
You know, I'm not sure how it would be a punishment. It's would be like taking a very long nap. In fact I think you could almost look at it as free time travel.

Agreed. Since you wouldn't age it would actually be more of an opportunity for a lot of people.