Because even in real solitary, you get exercise time, can talk occasionally to a guard, and sometimes can get something to read. This chemically induced "solitary" is closer to being locked in an isolation chamber. It's only purpose can be torture. It keep the criminal away from population (prison or civilian) for real extended periods, and it doesn't help the criminal better themselves in any way.

Just like torture. Oh wait.

How much rehabilitation/correction do you think will happen with 30 years of solitary confinement? They won't be talking to people in this altered state, or using the yard every day, or even reading. Everything will be in their head for thirty years. Their first act as free men will be murder or suicide.

Yes. A judgment that doesn't cover legal fees would probably be a loss for both sides.

Make it a clockwork robot?

And suddenly Anthony Weiner is the hero. "Mr. Weiner, please explain how we can send photos of our penises to this madman to reassure him!"

And the sequence ended in pizza or pancakes. Now it ends in nachos. Nachos are not a meal!

Space is cold!

Well, the Coconut of Quendor is that from which all magic flows.

It's a valuable energy source. What's to stop anyone (eve the current coal company people from founding a "competing" "coal" company that actually digs coal and sells it?

They could order from anyone who has ICBMs. 32 minute delivery or it's free.

Why aren't they measuring per metabolizable calorie instead of ton? Meat is more energy dense than a head of lettuce.
Also, water consumed by plants and creatures isn't lost forever. Sure, the bonds are cracked to make hydrocarbons, but the H and the O still exists. It's not like our bodies perform nuclear reactions.

The solution is to make sure they never drive around less than half empty. Make them combo delivery/refuse trucks.

Turn your head 90 degrees so that one eye is higher than the other. Ta Da, it now "reverses up and down."

screen and vlock. Most everything else I need is installed by default.

If you don't like Apple's energy policy, buy majority shares.