I Fought The Law

Random Fallout Items with Real World Equivalents

my lone wanderer chase: oh my god i can't believe i'm gay and i live in a hole in the ground and i have a crush on the kid who's been bullying me for years and also my dad is acting weird lately and i don't know what i'm going to do with the rest of my life

The American for-profit prison system is a legal system of torture today and in the 50s-60s it was a legal system of torture less comparable to modern methods and more comparable to medieval ones, especially in the southwest. Prisoners in the 21st century have been boiled to death in showers and eaten alive in termite infested cells: more regularly, they are driven mad by prolonged solitary confinement and suffer lost legs arms eyes or fingers as a result of untreated medical conditions. This makes gaining employment upon release functionally impossible, which incentivizes recidivism and ensures these institutions have a fresh load of bodies to make money off of at all times. To cut costs, solitary confinement is regularly employed as the default method for “treating” mentally/physically ill or otherwise inconvenient inmates in privately owned prisons, in case you thought this was somehow necessary. “If you aren’t crazy now, see how you’ll feel after spending a year in a tiny room with nothing to do!” In the modern day it’s been recorded that inmates will catch rats, put them on leashes, and sell them as service animals to mentally ill patients who aren’t receiving treatment. In the 50s and 60s, mentally ill prisoners were often kept inside grotesque full-body casts with holes cut out to urinate and defecate through in place of treatment.