Here is a short blog I am writing about the future of prison systems and why.
As many of you know and read about in the current news, the American tax dollar is being drained drastically paying into the current prison system. The tax dollars we shell out go into inmate shelter,their food,their clothing, and other costs to maintain our overcrowded prison cells. The situation is so bad, that America has the largest prison population in the world and the costs surpass even our educational requirements. What else can America do besides keep building new prisons to house inmates and suck up the American dollar to provide for our inmates? Well there is a very futuristic idea that has been in the works under everyone's noses.
If you look around on the internet and do some searches about human brains hooked up to computers with wires, you will find that there are people laying in bed controlling computers with simple thought processes. You can also find if you search that we have the technology to sustain brains in plasma containers and keep them active even without the rest of the human body that they belong to. If this is possible, and the human brain can control a computer with wiring and thought process, then there is nothing stopping science from putting brains on a pre-simulated program that go through a computer. How does this incorporate into the prison system you might be wondering. Well the idea is quite simple. The costs to maintain a human brain would be much cheaper then providing shelter,food,clothing,services, and individual cells for inmates. Now, if we could remove brains from inmates and put 100 brains in plasma containers in one storage cell versus one prisoner in each cell, we would be saving much space along with food,clothing and maintenance costs. Imagine it sort of like a big computer room where servers are stored, except in this case, it is the brains that are stored, stacked and labeled on top of each other in their own "jars" and all wired to a pre-simulated prison cell. This way, the inmate would have their brains simulated into a virtue prison, they could effectively serve longer terms such as 500-1000 year terms depending on their crime, and actually believe they are in their own prison cell serving time. One simple program, one giant prison server simulating a prison, and hundreds of thousands of brains hooked up to the network. No need for prison guards with guns and pepper spray for this virtue prison - these inmates just need to be sure their plasma is being recycled on a daily basis. Once the brain has served its sentence, it can be transferred to a randomly selected lifestyle on their release date and live a life after prison depending on who they were in the human body and given a normal life simulation for awhile. Think of the money being saved here, and the low maintenance costs. Everything mentioned here is possible with today's technology and could be implanted into full effect by 2020. Thank you for taking the time to read on the future of the prison. Oh! And lets not forget about the warden too. We may need one brave volunteer warden to have his brain removed and hooked into the system for maintenance and integrity reasons. Don't worry, the warden brain will get his own office and special vacation simulations.
