Exactly. I just saw an old 70s movie-of-the-week about apes turning on researchers, though you don't know it's apes until the end. Robert Culp walks into a room full of experimented-upon apes in cages only twice as big as they are, the apes are all screaming, and we the audience as well as Culp are probably meant to wonder, "What has the apes all upset?" He was certainly puzzled. They're in tiny cages, the reason's obvious, or should be.
Too often, this society's solutions to problems are to stick people into boxes and make them "useless". Aboriginal populations and desert reservations, one example. Prison is another. Clearly the Adam-in-a-box tactic had absolutely no future in it. It could not go anywhere, it could only deteriorate and/or explode.