- When Dr. Jack Henson, an ambitious inventor comes up with a "virtual prison" government officials are interested in its cost efficiency. Rather than life sentences, criminals would only have to spend hours being subjected to harsh treatment. When an innocent man's life is at stake, the doctor must submit himself to his own invention--while learning the true meaning of justice.—Anonymous
- Dr Henson believes that he has found a solution to the Jail/Prison over population by simulating 'time' in prison via a new machine that he has invented. However after a new prisoner nearly dies in the machine through too much fear, Henson decides to enter his own machine to bring the prisoner back to a state of reality. However it turns out that the prisoner has in fact died via a stab wound in the virtual reality of the machine. Henson is blamed for the murder ("you are charged with manslaughter") and sent to prison for it. There he experiences everything a normal prisoner experiences in prison including other prisoners who want to kill him and the subjective torture from the hard-as-nails guards. As well as a punishing exercise programme. But also this prison has a twist, you must never go over the lines otherwise something really bad will happen because the floor are electrified and the juice flowing on them is so high that if you are caught, you could be incapacitated. However he plans an escape but doesn't count on the floors and the electricity causes him to lose consciousness. For the escape that he failed to accomplish, he wakes up in 'the hole' which is basically solitary confinement to prisoners that cuts them off from other prisoners due to the isolation of the black locked room. Slowly starting to lose his mind he starts to talk to a holographic psychiatrist about what he now believes that he did and that he's sorry for it. Eventually he completes his sentence and allowed to leave the prison as an old man. What he doesn't realize was that he was in fact a victim of his own machine and that he didn't go to prison at all. What felt like years was in fact hours. There was no trial, no murder charge and no prison. After he comes out of his virtual reality 'coma' he realizes that his machine is not such a good thing after all.
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