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OpenIdea: Underwater Or Bio-dome Prisons
Ok, here’s another crazy idea. Back in the day, countries used to ship off their prisoners and undesirables to undeveloped places… like the US and Australia. We could still do that.. except we’d have to ship prisoners to Antarctica — and the legal questions could be a bit tricky for that (see Cuba?). So instead of shipping off inmates to legal limbo, how about house them where the law is clear (ie. not international waters) but in self-contained environments? I don’t think it’s inhumane to house prisoners in a bio-dome (unless the air runs out or something).. Obviously, we’d want to keep them alive and treat them humanely, but why not learn about self-contained environmental systems while we’re at it? And escape would be impossible because the self-contained system would have “air-locks” for visitors or guards… Um. I’m sure this has been some kind of science fiction story… but isn’t all science fiction slowly becoming reality…
