1,000 Year Prison Sentences: Oxford University Study Says It’s Possible

Have you ever wondered what a life sentence really means? It is basically a sentencing of a criminal for the remainder of their life or until paroled, which many can be after so long. Regardless of parole or not, does a person truly learn a lesson with this? Whether you’re sentenced to death or life without parole, it holds no candle to what the mind can do in this Oxford University study.

Oxford University started to explore the idea of a pill that could put someone under the idea that they were spending hundreds or even 1,000 years in prison. Yet, they are only spending mere hours.

It sounds crazy, but the idea is somewhat genius. Oxford has been playing around with several ideas for years that some find controversial. The interesting part is that many of the controversial things we use today could very well have an Oxford University study behind it before it was released to the open market. So we should not overlook the idea that certain things could be possible.

Oxford claims that life expectancy could go up. Currently, we have the technology to keep someone on life support for an extended period of time.We couldn’t do this 100 years ago, so technology alone is able to do so much for us. It would not be a shock to see it also increase life beyond it’s given due date. We are entering days where 80 years could be considered the new 50 or 30.

It should only make us worry more that life sentences or even potential death sentences will not be the last of someone who commits a crime.

Scientists at Oxford University feel that it would be best to potentially mess with the mind to truly make a criminal feel horrific just as much as the crime they committed if not more so. Oxford is in the process of coming up with a pill or some sort of substance that can be given to a criminal to slow down time for them.

Mere minutes would feel like days or weeks to them, basically making them feel like they are in a trapped in a false sense of reality. They’d feel as if everything was real, but in reality they have only been feeling this was for a couple of hours. So a criminal could be sentenced to 1,000 years while in reality, it is only 8 and a half hours.

It would basically be what Oxford University calls “artificial hell”. It would be like a video game that goes over year long spans while you have only played it a few hours. Think of it like this, but in real life. That is what Oxford is trying to accomplish.

The idea makes total sense, and may actually be more effective not only on the criminal but for tax payers such as you and I. So could 1,000 years in a few hours be an ideal sentencing? It seems possible.

Oxford’s Dr Rebecca Roache has led the study and notes that criminals will receive very humane treatment, far surpassing how the criminal treated their victim. She says regarding this:

“They will, for example, be fed and watered, housed in clean cells, allowed access to a toilet and washing facilities, allowed out of their cells for exercise and recreation.”

So our tax money is paying into keeping horrific murders, rapists, and others similar alive. Meanwhile people who have not committed one crime are out suffering with no help at all. Oh yes, prison is punishment indeed.

Obviously noting that, a couple of hours making people feel they are involved in hundred year sentences would not only be huge for helping people realize their imprisonment and wrongfulness of the crime, but we’re saving federal money as well. One issue may be that when people get wise to the idea, they might take a plea bargain to get this particular sentence.

They may be in an Inception sort of concept with it, but it would be better than living out the real thing. So there is a problem within the greatness.

Would this also be used on lower seed crimes such as theft for example? Currently, Oxford has not gone into who they feel would deserve this type of drug.

Oxford University notes that there are several psychoactive drugs that can distort sense of time. Some can be in a daze for days thinking simple hours passed. So why not reverse this and make people feel that days and weeks pass while it’s a few hours? It may take time to develop such a psychoactive drug. However, it is possible knowing the technology we possess now.

Oxford University may have trial and error massively with this idea. If anyone can figure out the secret to it though, it would be Oxford. We may soon see 1,000 year sentences go out, and if we do, we know where the concept came from, Oxford University.