Orbiting Penal Colony

A prison placed in orbit (better than Alcatraz). (Read the full article)

"To expensive, just shoot em' LOL"
(Bill Sherman 10/29/2004 12:00:05 PM )
"The Traveller science fiction role playing game used this. Adventure 1 The Kinunir (1979) had an orbiting Kinunir class cruiser, the Gaesh, which had been converted into an "orbital prison hulk". This is an old idea (see the Wikipedia entry http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prison_ship for more)."
( 12/24/2008 5:42:49 AM )

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