TELL THE TRUTH
A “Truth Machine” will come into existence within the next ten years. Criminals will be hooked up to a machine (much like a lie detector) when arrested or brought in to custody for suspected crimes. The machine is part laboratory and part computer technology. Actual blood testing and other bodily fluids will be part of the test, as well as heart rate, perspiration, and brain activity. Within a few years, the machine will be accepted as completely foolproof. Lying will become a thing of the past for most people in the criminal system including terrorist activities. Some people will protest that “Big Brother” is watching. In the end and over time, the truth machine will become an accepted part of society.
Eventually the truth machine will eliminate most criminal behavior from society, along with the expense of present trials. Sentencing of criminals will be established according to the crime. There will be no exceptions to the established “time in prison” rules. For instance, if someone over eighteen robs someone and violates the code of safety toward a victim, the sentence will be ten years in prison. No possible parole, no pleading, no first offense. Money will make no difference in the sentencing by judges. If a person purposely and willfully harms or kills a child, the sentence will automatically be death.
If someone not yet eighteen commits a crime, he will be sentenced to rehabilitation. If at the end of the rehabilitation term, the perpetrator fails the truth machine test and is not rehabilitated, he will be sentenced for the crime, and the term in prison will be the same as if he had not committed the crime as a youthful offender.