prisoners' rights theme

We are made to ponder what conditions in prisons should be like and what may morally be done to prisoners who have committed crimes of different kinds.

Examples

The Angosians kept their super-soldiers imprisoned without any right to appeal on a shabby little moon in tng3x11 "The Hunted".

5 total · 1 choice · 1 major · 3 minor

StoryLevelMotivation
tng3x11 choice Dangerous supersoldier war veterans were being imprisoned indefinitely on a moon.
movie: The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) major Colonel Nicholson insisted on a point in the Geneva Conventions that prohibited the use of captured officers for manual labor in work camps. This lead to a stand off between him and the camp commander, Colonel Saito, and became the pivot for most of the plot.
ent1x21 minor Archer was denied the possibility of contacting his ship to inform them he and Mayweather were interred in a Tandaran prison. Suliban internees treated harshly by Tandarans.
movie: RoboCop 2 (1990) minor Donald Johnson vehemently objected to Dr. Juliette Faxx's plan to make death row inmates into cyborgs.
voy7x13 minor Janeway chided the Benkarans for administering a beating to Iko, and prisoners were accustomed to only one meal a day.