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Author: DRCEQ

Feb 20th 2013 at 4:50:15 PM

* The spirit of this trope is still used in certain prisons around the United States. Instead of doing time, you are given ONE chance (and only one chance) to go through an extremely intense bootcamp-like training from the moment you step off the prison transport from the courtroom. They put you through the ringer. You will sleep when told to sleep, eat when told to eat, eat ''how'' they tell you to eat, go to the bathroom when they tell you too and for how long, put you through intense physical training that the regular army at one point considered to be normal, but now considers to be inhumane. Basically turn you into a mindless grunt. If you can survive about 3 months of this, the state will deem you worthy of returning to normal society, and your crimes will be absolved. If you slip up even once, you will have to serve your sentence. You can generally only do this if you were sent to prison for a non-violent crime in the first place though.

To put it simply: it would be ''easier'' to deal with life in prison than it is to survive this training, but if you do, you're a free man.