Saw this pic (detail of #90 in the series) via one of Sarah’s posts. It’s of a Mongolian prisoner circa 1913:
…and it got me thinking. Why doesn’t this become standard prison attire for violent criminals in our system? (I can think of only one improvement, and that’s to add a shackle to the ankle so that the scumbag can’t use the chain as a weapon.) It would make prison breaks somewhat… problematic, shall we say; and to transport a few convicts as a group simply requires the addition of another length of chain.
And please tell me why the thought of a hundred or so MS-13 or Crips gang members thus attired in San Quentin doesn’t give you the Warm & Fuzzies…
You could break up any kind of a prison riot with a big electromagnet.
Stake the other end to the ground, or, if they’ve got good behavior, to an overhead cable.
Put a 100 lb weight on the other end. 200 lbs if they make trouble.