There was an episode of Outer Limits with Lou Diamond Phillips. He played a prisoner who was knocked?

Question

out with drugs, and forced to live out his entire
sentence that way---PLUS, he had to re-live the
crime in his mind for some 25 years.


Of course, this is fiction. My question is, would
it be legal and ethical to place a dangerous prisoner in a drug-induced coma for an unspecified amount of time, esp. if she or he had
a record of escapes, and assaulted folks every
single time?

Answer 1

No. Try solitary confinement, or the death penalty.