FAMILY JUSTICE by Julien Glazer
Your life has been devastated by a deliberate or careless act. You somehow expect justice but find that the criminal gets let off lightly by a soft or corrupt judicial system. What can you do? Well, you can grin and bear it, or you could take matters into your own hands. However, an alternative justice is only a telephone call away.
The Slater Family has a private penitentiary hidden in the catacombs deep below the foundations of their plush hotel on a Mediterranean holiday island. They specialise in taking nasty people out of circulation and all you have to do is call them.
Of course running a private prison independent of a national authority is illegal. The prison guards would have to be very discreet when off-duty. However, what if robots, programmed with the very latest in artificial intelligence, were used instead?
Five years ago this story would have been in the realm of science fiction but now such robots are on the production drawing boards of at least three major Japanese corporations. So meet Jotoo, a second generation robot. Family Justice runs like clockwork until a paedophile priest tells Jotoo about Jesus and then everything starts to go pear shaped….
Copyright © Julien Glazer March 2006
Your life has been devastated by a deliberate or careless act. You somehow expect justice but find that the criminal gets let off lightly by a soft or corrupt judicial system. What can you do? Well, you can grin and bear it, or you could take matters into your own hands. However, an alternative justice is only a telephone call away.
The Slater Family has a private penitentiary hidden in the catacombs deep below the foundations of their plush hotel on a Mediterranean holiday island. They specialise in taking nasty people out of circulation and all you have to do is call them.
Of course running a private prison independent of a national authority is illegal. The prison guards would have to be very discreet when off-duty. However, what if robots, programmed with the very latest in artificial intelligence, were used instead?
Five years ago this story would have been in the realm of science fiction but now such robots are on the production drawing boards of at least three major Japanese corporations. So meet Jotoo, a second generation robot. Family Justice runs like clockwork until a paedophile priest tells Jotoo about Jesus and then everything starts to go pear shaped….
Copyright © Julien Glazer March 2006
