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* The 36. Waffen-SS Grenadier Division, "Dirlewanger". Dr. Oskar Dirlewanger was a Nazi mad political scientist and BoxedCrook who proposed to form an SS unit from arrested poachers (later expanded to include all kinds of arrested criminals, including rapists, psychopaths, child molesters and murderers). Eventually, Dirlewanger became the commander of his own division, an ArmyOfThievesAndWhores recruited from prisons and jails and infamous for cruelty. [[EvenEvilHasStandards It was abhorred even within the Waffen SS]], to say nothing of the people in the areas it operated. SS-General Friedrich-Wilhelm Krüger, who did not hesitate to spill the blood of hundreds of thousands in occupied Poland, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oskar_Dirlewanger#World_War_II once threatened Dirlewanger personally]] [[EvenEvilHasStandards just because he was too disgusted with him]] and his army of criminals. They were used primarily as anti-partisan forces, including in suppressing the Warsaw Uprising, but critical shortages of troops had them pressed into combat fighting the Red Army advances, where most were killed. Dirlewanger himself went into hiding and was captured by the French after the war, and was [[KarmicDeath beaten to death by Polish troops]].
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* The 36. Waffen-SS Grenadier Division, "Dirlewanger". Dr. Oskar Dirlewanger was a Nazi mad political scientist and BoxedCrook who proposed to form an SS unit from arrested poachers (later expanded to include all kinds of arrested criminals, including rapists, psychopaths, child molesters and murderers). Eventually, Dirlewanger became the commander of his own division, an ArmyOfThievesAndWhores recruited from prisons and jails and infamous for cruelty. [[EvenEvilHasStandards It was abhorred even within the Waffen SS]], to say nothing of the people in the areas it operated. SS-General Friedrich-Wilhelm Krüger, who did not hesitate to spill the blood of hundreds of thousands in occupied Poland, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oskar_Dirlewanger#World_War_II once threatened Dirlewanger personally]] just because [[EvenEvilHasStandards just because he was too disgusted with him]] and his army of criminals. They were used primarily as anti-partisan forces, including in suppressing the Warsaw Uprising, but critical shortages of troops had them pressed into combat fighting the Red Army advances, where most were killed. Dirlewanger himself went into hiding and was captured by the French after the war, and was [[KarmicDeath beaten to death by Polish troops]].
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* The 36. Waffen-SS Grenadier Division, "Dirlewanger". Dr. Oskar Dirlewanger was a Nazi mad political scientist and BoxedCrook who proposed to form an SS unit from arrested poachers (later expanded to include all kinds of arrested criminals, including rapists, psychopaths, child molesters and murderers). Eventually, Dirlewanger became the commander of his own division, an ArmyOfThievesAndWhores recruited from prisons and jails and infamous for cruelty. [[EvenEvilHasStandards It was abhorred even within the Waffen SS]], to say nothing of the people in the areas it operated. SS-General Friedrich-Wilhelm Krüger, who did not hesitate to spill the blood of hundreds of thousands in occupied Poland, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oskar_Dirlewanger#World_War_II once threatened Dirlewanger personally]] [[EvenEvilHasStandards just because he was too disgusted with him]] and his [[ExactWords army of criminals]]. They were used primarily as anti-partisan forces, including in suppressing the Warsaw Uprising, but critical shortages of troops had them pressed into combat fighting the Red Army advances, where most were killed. Dirlewanger himself went into hiding and was captured by the French after the war, and was [[KarmicDeath beaten to death by Polish troops]].
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* The 36. Waffen-SS Grenadier Division, "Dirlewanger". Dr. Oskar Dirlewanger was a Nazi mad political scientist and BoxedCrook who proposed to form an SS unit from arrested poachers (later expanded to include all kinds of arrested criminals, including rapists, psychopaths, child molesters and murderers). Eventually, Dirlewanger became the commander of his own division, an ArmyOfThievesAndWhores recruited from prisons and jails and infamous for cruelty. [[EvenEvilHasStandards It was abhorred even within the Waffen SS]], to say nothing of the people in the areas it operated. SS-General Friedrich-Wilhelm Krüger, who did not hesitate to spill the blood of hundreds of thousands in occupied Poland, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oskar_Dirlewanger#World_War_II once threatened Dirlewanger personally]] [[EvenEvilHasStandards just because he was too disgusted with him]] and his [[ExactWords army of criminals]].criminals. They were used primarily as anti-partisan forces, including in suppressing the Warsaw Uprising, but critical shortages of troops had them pressed into combat fighting the Red Army advances, where most were killed. Dirlewanger himself went into hiding and was captured by the French after the war, and was [[KarmicDeath beaten to death by Polish troops]].
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* During the 2022 UsefulNotes/{{Russia}}n Invasion of UsefulNotes/{{Ukraine}}, the [[PrivateMilitaryContractors Wagner Group]] recruited from prisons to fill out its ranks, promising those who completed their tour of duty that they would released from the remainder of their sentences. [[CannonFodder Many wouldn't make it back to Russia]], especially due to the [[ZergRush "human waves"]] thrown at the Ukrainians in Bakhmut. While at least a couple of those who made it back immediately returned to their prior life of crime. After the Wagner group fell into disgrace and ended up absorbed by the Russian army in 2023, the Russian army itself has kept that practice going due to a UsefulNotes/VladimirPutin still not wanting to fully enforce general conscription, and again as cannon fodder to to exhaust Ukrainian defenses.
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* A variation on this is implemented in ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'' with the Night's Watch, which guards the massive Wall at the edge of the known world against threats from beyond. Since the Watch is perpetually low on men, many thieves, rapists, murderers and other criminals in Westeros are often offered a choice: face their punishment, or "take the black" and join the Night's Watch for life. This is actually the antithesis of what the Watch ''used'' to be; thousands of years ago many men would volunteer to take the black, but nowadays the Night's Watch is only seen as guarding against the barbarians beyond the Wall instead of ice monsters and their zombie thralls, and is only a tenth of the strength it used to be.
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* ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'': A variation on this is implemented in ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'' with the Night's Watch, which guards the massive Wall at the edge of the known world against threats from beyond. Since the Watch is perpetually low on men, many thieves, rapists, murderers and other criminals in Westeros are often offered a choice: face their punishment, or "take the black" and join the Night's Watch for life. This is actually the antithesis of what the Watch ''used'' to be; thousands of years ago many men would volunteer to take the black, but nowadays the Night's Watch is only seen as guarding against the barbarians beyond the Wall instead of ice monsters and their zombie thralls, and is only a tenth of the strength it used to be. This practice also causes a signficant internal issue for the Watch: the majority of its forces consists of criminals who joined solely because it was the only alternative to a death sentence, meaning that few of them even vaguely want to be there or care particularly about its nonimal goals. Desertion is a constant problem, morale and discipline are poor, and large tracts of the Watch are always a bad week away from open mutiny.
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** The ''VideoGame/StarCraftI'' Terran campaign {{novelization}} ''Liberty's Crusade'' has a female Marine assigned to be the bodyguard/minder of the protagonist (a journalist embedded with the Confederate military's Alpha Squadron). She's eventually revealed to be a former SerialKiller who flayed her victims alive with a kitchen knife; when she witnesses firsthand what the Zerg do to their victims, the stress starts to unravel her neural resocialization. [[spoiler:She loses it completely when she gets trapped by Zerg and [[TakingYouWithMe goes to town on them with a knife]] until she ends up [[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe Half The Woman She Used To Be]].]]
** {{Exploited}} in ''Literature/StarCraftTheDarkTemplarSaga''. After Jake and Rosemary are imprisoned by the Dominion, Zamara, the protoss archivist [[MindHive now sharing Jake's body]], uses her psionics to undo the neural resocialization of one of the soldiers guarding them to create a diversion. He turns out to have been a cannibal.
* Ross Murdock is recruited from prison by ''Literature/TheTimeTraders''.
* In the ''Literature/{{Track}}'' action adventure series by Jerry Ahern, the title character mentions this while lecturing on his BackStory. He says this was during the Vietnam War so [[LoweredRecruitingStandards "they were taking anyone who could walk in those days"]].
* In ''Literature/WearingTheCape'', this is the military's big way to get supers, given that too few breakthroughs either want to join or are already in the forces (despite special programs designed to trigger them).
** {{Exploited}} in ''Literature/StarCraftTheDarkTemplarSaga''. After Jake and Rosemary are imprisoned by the Dominion, Zamara, the protoss archivist [[MindHive now sharing Jake's body]], uses her psionics to undo the neural resocialization of one of the soldiers guarding them to create a diversion. He turns out to have been a cannibal.
* Ross Murdock is recruited from prison by ''Literature/TheTimeTraders''.
* In the ''Literature/{{Track}}'' action adventure series by Jerry Ahern, the title character mentions this while lecturing on his BackStory. He says this was during the Vietnam War so [[LoweredRecruitingStandards "they were taking anyone who could walk in those days"]].
* In ''Literature/WearingTheCape'', this is the military's big way to get supers, given that too few breakthroughs either want to join or are already in the forces (despite special programs designed to trigger them).
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** ''VideoGame/StarCraftI'': The ''VideoGame/StarCraftI'' Terran campaign {{novelization}} ''Liberty's Crusade'' has a female Marine assigned to be the bodyguard/minder of the protagonist (a journalist embedded with the Confederate military's Alpha Squadron). She's eventually revealed to be a former SerialKiller who flayed her victims alive with a kitchen knife; when she witnesses firsthand what the Zerg do to their victims, the stress starts to unravel her neural resocialization. [[spoiler:She loses it completely when she gets trapped by Zerg and [[TakingYouWithMe goes to town on them with a knife]] until she ends up [[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe Half The Woman She Used To Be]].]]
**{{Exploited}} in ''Literature/StarCraftTheDarkTemplarSaga''.''Literature/StarCraftTheDarkTemplarSaga'': {{Exploited}}. After Jake and Rosemary are imprisoned by the Dominion, Zamara, the protoss archivist [[MindHive now sharing Jake's body]], uses her psionics to undo the neural resocialization of one of the soldiers guarding them to create a diversion. He turns out to have been a cannibal.
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*In ''Literature/WearingTheCape'', this ''Literature/WearingTheCape'': This is the military's big way to get supers, given that too few breakthroughs either want to join or are already in the forces (despite special programs designed to trigger them).
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* Referenced in ''Series/ThirtyRock'', Tracy Jordan is forced to record a PSA, saying that he can't turn down community service, "'cause if I do, that judge is gonna make me join the Coast Guard".
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* One episode of ''Series/{{Castle|2009}}'' reveals that Detective Javier Esposito has a juvie record. A school teacher got him straightened out, and he went on to become a Special Forces sniper and eventually an NYPD homicide detective.
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* ''VideoGame/ShinGihrensGreed'': In Amuro Ray's story, the White Base manages to successfully reach Earth Federation HQ Jaburo in South America (unlike in canon, where the White Base came down in North America and forced to fight their way down to Jaburo). However, once there a Federation officer reluctantly informs them that while they're grateful for Amuro and the other civilian volunteers for helping to man the White Base, they're also civilians who learned military secrets (i.e. the existence of the Gundam and other V Project machines) and would normally be sentenced to life imprisonment or death [[note]] in canon, General Revil noted that they'd instead be imprisoned for "merely" a year out of consideration for the extraordinary circumstances [[/note]]. The officer does offer a solution: since the issue is they were civilians who learned military secrets, if they were actually part of the military then there wouldn't be an issue. He then asks if Amuro is willing to enlist. Saying yes results in Amuro, Kai Shiden and Hayato Kobayashi being assigned to the Federation base in Madras, India, and equipped with a Ground Combat Gundam and Ground Combat [=GMs=], while saying no is a NonstandardGameOver.
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* ''WebVideo/PiratesSMP'': [[FlashbackBPlot The flashback]] at the start of Owen's 8th episode reveals he talked his way out of [[spoiler:execution by hanging]] off-screen for alleged theft and [[InvokedTrope convinced the judicial authorities]] to send him to serve in the Navy that just arrested him instead. He will later flee the Navy and join up at the Faction Isles, [[ForegoneConclusion at which point our story begins]].
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* ''WebVideo/PiratesSMP'': [[FlashbackBPlot The flashback]] at the start of Owen's 8th episode reveals he talked his way out of [[spoiler:execution by hanging]] off-screen for alleged theft and [[InvokedTrope convinced the judicial authorities]] to send him to serve in the Navy that just arrested him instead. He will later flee the Navy and join up at the Faction Isles, [[ForegoneConclusion at which point our story begins]].
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* During the 2022 UsefulNotes/{{Russia}}n Invasion of UsefulNotes/{{Ukraine}}, the [[PrivateMilitaryContractors Wagner Group]] recruited from prisons to fill out its ranks, promising those who completed their tour of duty that they would released from the remainder of their sentences. [[CannonFodder Many wouldn't make it back to Russia]], especially due to the [[ZergRush "human waves"]] thrown at the Ukrainians in Bakhmut. While at least a couple of those who made it back immediately returned to their prior life of crime. After the Wagner group fell into disgrace and ended up absorbed by the Russian army in 2023, the Russian army itself has kept that practice going due to a lack of volunteers and UsefulNotes/VladimirPutin still not wanting to fully enforce general conscription.
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Not to be confused with the rare but perfectly acceptable practice of American junior officers - who wear gold or silver bars - resigning their commissions and enlisting.
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Not to be confused with the rare but perfectly acceptable practice of American junior officers - -- who wear gold or silver bars - -- resigning their commissions and enlisting.
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* During the 2022 UsefulNotes/{{Russia}}n Invasion of UsefulNotes/{{Ukraine}}, the [[PrivateMilitaryContractors Wagner Group]] recruited from prisons to fill out its ranks, promising those who completed their tour of duty that they would released from the remainder of their sentences. [[CannonFodder Many wouldn't make it back to Russia]], especially due to the [[ZergRush "human waves"]] thrown at the Ukrainians in Bakhmut. While at least a couple of those who made it back immediately returned to their prior life of crime.
** After the Wagner group fell into disgrace and ended up absorbed by the Russian army in 2023, the Russian army itself has kept that practice going.
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* In ''Fanfic/MythosEffect'', the beginning of Chapter 25 has a Turian executed for rape and attempted murder at the POW camp. Adrien is told that Digeris attempted to make up for manpower shortage by recruiting criminals. The results were... [[{{Understatement}} mixed]].
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* Inverted in Music/PinkFloyd's "Wish You Were Here": "Did you exchange / A walk-on part in the war / For a lead role in a cage?"
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* ''VideoGame/AlienSwarm'': Wolfe was a convict who was turned into a soldier, and because he outperformed the others and [[GoodFeelsGood enjoyed working as a solider]], he permanently joined the Special ops as a soldier and left his criminal life behind.
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* ''TabletopGame/UnhallowedMetropolis'' has the Penal Corps, comprised of criminals who have been sentenced to a four-year term of service in the Deathwatch. They're known as the Suicide Corps to both Deathwatch regulars and civilians alike, and are given shoddy surplus rifles and the bare minimum of training needed to know where to point them. However, if a convict somehow manages to survive their four-year term, then they are officially pardoned of their crimes and invited to join the Deathwatch as a private soldier.
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* In ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'', when a horde of hobgoblins led by [[BigBad Xykon]] attacks Azure City,[[ThePaladin Hinjo]] offers several criminals in the city's prison [[ThePardon 5 years shaved off their sentence]] if they agree to be temporarily drafted into the city's army.
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* In ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'', when a horde of hobgoblins led by [[BigBad Xykon]] attacks Azure City,[[ThePaladin City, [[ThePaladin Hinjo]] offers several criminals in the city's prison [[ThePardon 5 years shaved off their sentence]] if they agree to be temporarily drafted into the city's army.army. Two of the three he recruits this way turn on him during the battle, the third only stays on Hinjo's side because of his [[{{Geas}} Mark of Justice]].
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* During the 2022 UsefulNotes/{{Russia}}n Invasion of UsefulNotes/{{Ukraine}}, the [[PrivateMilitaryContractors Wagner Group]] recruited from prisons to fill out its ranks, promising those who completed their tour of duty that they would released from the remainder of their sentences. [[CannonFodder Many wouldn't make it back to Russia]], especially due to the [[ZergRush "human waves" waves"]] thrown at the Ukrainians in Bakhmut.
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* During the 2022 Russian Invasion of Ukraine, the [[PrivateMilitaryContractors Wagner Group]] recruited from prisons to fill out its ranks, promising those who completed their tour of duty that they would released from the remainder of their sentences. [[CannonFodder Many wouldn't make it back to Russia.]]
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