Human Storage Facility
In 2019 a proposal was put forward by a small group of MPs. The proposal gave savings of over 20 million pounds! They proposed that the UK could not afford to keep criminals in prison and that a new way of 'punishing' crime needed to be looked in to. On the 1st May 2020 the new HSF Bodmin was opened and put to full use.
With the UK prison service at breaking point it was of paramount importance that a new prison was required. A proposal was put forward that instead of putting offenders in to an already failing service that they be put in to 'storage'. Advancements in cryogenic/freezer and other life preserving systems meant that a prisoner could be placed in to storage and revived later after their term of incarceration. This solved many of the problems when young offenders become career criminals when placed with other criminal role models. Many work out and learn new criminal skills whilst in prison and leave a better criminal. This storage system made great savings in staff and safety costs, building areas, and all of the other associated costs.
The question arose as to why we should prolong a persons life when they had committed a crime?
Modifications to the storage systems caused a more realistic, if controversial way of storing the offender. Essentially the offender is placed in to an induced coma. They are provided with everything they need to sustain their body, but they age normally. At the end of their incarceration the offender is woken and spends their last months in one of the normal prisons where they are brought up-to-date and rehabilitated back in to society.
This method of incarceration is used for serious crime with long sentences and as an option for shorter sentences.
In 2025 the death penalty was reintroduced in to the UK. If the prisoner is sentenced to death it is a painless death by introducing the correct chemicals to the sleeping prisoner.