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[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 8 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

I now can't stop thinking about a particular George Carlin bit about fencing off one of the shittier states and just dropping all the rapists, killers, and drug addicts into it, giving them all weapons, and then filming the resulting carnage.

[–] TheDoozer@lemmy.world 15 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

I remember seeing a documentary about that in the 80s with a guy trying to escape a large city set up to be a maximum security prison. It was called Escape from New York.

They made similar documentary about Los Angeles in the 90s. Interesting stuff.

Look up Cannibal Island,

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

They need a 3rd one set in Ohio now. They covered the coast lines, where's the insane middle-america prison?

[–] ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

Cleaveland must be a dystopian thing