I don't want a prison in my backyard - can we freeze criminals for 50 years?  

Lol that would be a good thing to research, but not only just for prisoners. If we were finally able to cryogenically freeze people could be a good way to save people in accidents, freeze them take them to the hospital and then do surgery, same with soldiers. Also we could finally explore space better, cryogenically freeze people in a ship and send them to mars or other places to colonize.

Well, that really is an amazing thought. But think about it- they could not talk to their loved ones, make phone calls, write letters. Plus, I think it depends on if they can think. Is it as though they are asleep and don't have any count of time? Or are they thinking? Because if it's going to be as though they just close thier eyes, it gets cold, adn then they wake up ten years later, they didn't really get the consequence of feeling trapped in jail. They won't really get to feel how it feels to not be able to go to the mall or go to a baseball game. I doubt they would age either, so it would be just kind of like taking them from the present to the future.

I'm not sure that would work here in California. Too many brownouts and power troubles. The prisoners would thaw out early
Eventually, technology may allow us to do such things though, and it does seem like a great idea

if they started freezing prisoners , that would make the criminals job that easier to commit crimes , whats the punishment , 100 years for killing people , no matter to the convict cause all that is , is basically a long sleep lol he'll be out just in time for his great great great grand kids b-day lol ..umm id rather freez them and break em into pieces like the ending lol

Hey mommyboo! Why should we bother ever thawing them out
in that case? Why do we need to freeze them at all? Why
don't we just get rid of them altogether? I don't quite
understand? We don't need them! Why should we keep them
or freeze them? We are better off without them totally!
I'm for disposing of the permanently! Never mind thawing
them out in 50 years! What good is that going to do?
The will still be the same and then be a burdon on society
then! So what's the point? Maybe we won't be here, but
you children will. Do you want them to deal with the
problem?

LOL... well there would be less to worry about im sure.
But my husband loves that movie.
If we can do that or not.... I know when people die they request to be frozen for future cures and research or something in that order. But no one to my knowledge has came back... But no one has been alive going in either.

So the criminal does not actually do time because they are frozen. They walk into a booth and *poof* they are frozen and are thawed out 50 years later, still young and in good shape, and they would remember nothing of the time they were frozen. That is not really punishment. What they need is to be locked up in a cold jail cell and given bad food so at the end of 50 years they have been punished. 50 years frozen is not punishment. Think of another way.

It would not be a good idea. If they were murderers, why were they not executed? And even though they were frozen and were not murderers, who knows when they discover that their wives and children have gone on, their wives have remarried and their grandchildren are the same age as they, would it not compel them to go and start killing.
Besides one of the most effective methods of punishment is for the convict to realize his crime even for the years he spends in the pen and for the time before his execution. An unconscious man does not realize his sin.

You didn't pay much attention to the movie did you? What happened when they finally did thaw a prisoner out? He went on a wild killing spree.

You'd just be storing them to build up for later generations to deal with. Imagine freezing & stacking up millions of prisoners & then some disaster knocks out the power & they all thaw out at once. What then? Chaos, Death & Destruction would reign as an army of psycopaths break lose.