If we're a prison population, why would they weed out violent residents? There's bound to be crazy nutcases in a group like that.

[ It doesn't make sense at all, all of their actions taken together. If they were testing tools to force cooperation, they'd want to have extremely disagreeable individuals in the pool of test subjects. That way, they could ensure it worked on just about every kind of person they might encounter. He sighs with frustration. ]

None of this makes sense.