The Prison Planet
Many years ago, novelist Kurt Vonnegut published a series of short stories entitled “The Sirens of Titan” (1959). My favorite story was about the Prison Planet. I am remembering from about forty years ago but, basically, a space traveler (Malachi Constant) and his dog land on the prison planet and are promptly arrested when the hero gives his dog some beer to drink. At the time he landed there one third of the planet was in prison, one third was administering the prison po