I run a prison planet community here on lemmy so I know the concept and earth being a prison comes up in many ancient relgiions. The gnostic Christians believe earth was made to be a prison by malevolent entities. There’s a belief in niche internet circles that earth is actually hell because hell is not described as a lake of fire or anything like that, it is simply a world without god and we are simply repeating our lives and deja vu is just us remembering previous times we’ve lived. If nothing else, it’s a interesting thought experiment.