A group of American researchers led by Professor Rebecca Roach have proposed an alternative method of punishment for especially serious criminals. This futuristic method will allow dangerous criminals to serve incredibly long sentences almost instantly and without aging at all. Experts believe that a prisoner's brain can be "tricked" into thinking that a very long time has passed, although in reality it has been only a few hours.
Roach says that this effect can be achieved in two different ways. The first theoretical option is the development of a special chemical that affects the human brain and distorts the sense of time (something similar is shown in the fantastic action movie "Judge Dredd"). The second option is to connect a person to a computer in order to speed up the work of his brain. The Americans have calculated that if you speed up the work of the human brain by a factor of a trillion, then the "mental" serving of a thousand-year sentence in prison will actually take only eight and a half hours. True, whether it will be safe for the brain has not yet been reported.
Adherents of these not yet existing technologies believe that such methods of punishment will significantly save taxpayers' money. In addition, they will become much more effective and somewhat humane compared to conventional imprisonment. Yes, “lying” on a bed for a thousand years can become a real mental torment, but a person who has been subjected to it will certainly not want to cross the line of the law anymore.
“Is it right to lock a person, no matter how bad he may be, in a cage for many years, taking away most of his only life? It would be much more humane to transform his consciousness and immediately release him from prison. The ideal punishment should be aimed primarily at re-education and liberation of the already renewed, fully aware person, but has not yet lost his physical strength,”says Roach.
