lockout

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1592525/

look, here is the thing.  if you are going to build a super futuristic prison, why would you include any kind of stasis technology?  what would have to be wrong with your brain in order for that to be a thing?  you would have to be a capitalist or something.

perhaps you are thinking of demolition man right now and thinking to yourself that it is clearly a data point that contradicts me, but you are wrong.  see, demolition man had a *rehabilitating* stasis--the criminals who came out of it were all peaceful and stuff.  theoretically.  lockout's stasis was sort of the opposite, it amplified the violent tendencies in a bold move to *increase* recidivism, and thereby increase demand for the super-prison's services.  this is what happens when you let major corporations run prisons as for-profit enterprises.  they develop stasis technology and feed it to the prisoners.

i like to think that prisons count as systems that should have a degree of high reliability to them.  when you are developing a reliable system, you basically go through the system piece by piece and ask yourself: "what if this piece fails?"  the prison featured in lockout seems to have had some of that planning built into it, but it really bothers me that they do not seem to have planned for the case where the thing that goes wrong is that a prisoner gets loose in the interrogation room.  typically, an obvious failure scenario like that one should not lead to the prisoner single-handedly taking over the prison and releasing all of the other prisoners.  who are, technically, no longer prisoners at that point.

lockout gets one frozen cupcake.