Why was the Juggernaut, one of the strongest beings on the planet, not able to escape a simple prison? He should have been in the Raft. He didn’t appear to have a collar, not that would have affected him, as he isn’t a mutant. He wasn’t kept immobile, as he was able to grab the lunch tray.
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TLDR: The answer is really they wanted the Juggernaut in the movie, logic be damned.
I ended up rewatching the Super Duper release to get an answer. The Super Duper release has some footage that was cut from the regular release, so there is more information there.
First off the collar. Around 42:20m in the movie, the policeman says "It's a power dampening collar. It shuts down all mutant abilities." This implies it only works on mutants.
We never see the Juggernaut wearing the collar. However, he is always seen wearing his helmet. He is wearing it in the Ice Box in his cell, as well as in the prison transport vehicle, when Fire Fist opens his cage at 1:21:09, his helmet is on and there is no sign of the collar. A metal armband can be seen briefly as he exits the cage.
As Shreedhar pointed out in his answer, the Juggernaut was kept in a magnetic cage on the transport. The Juggernaut is wearing metallic armbands and legbands which he removes from himself after stepping out of the wrecked transport. I suppose we are to assume these four tiny pieces of metal (and possibly his helmet) were strong enough to restrain him in a magnetic field. I guess we just chalk that up to movie logic.
I think its safe to say the Juggernaut is not considered a mutant in this movie, as he is never shown wearing a power damning collar when restrained. At 1:36:12 he also alludes to Xavier being his half-brother, which is more in line with his comic book origin, which is magical.
In the Ice Box, we see Fire Fist give the Juggernaut the tray, who then pulls it in at around 1:04:00. However, we later see it appears he appears to be against the back wall, with bars with red lights in front of the door - presumably to keep him from breaking out. Strangely, the bars are not present on the side wall. There is also a window on the wall with no bars. The movie shows the Juggernaut as invulnerable. So assuming he had the ability he could just bust through that wall with the window. Since he survived the fall from the highway, he could survive a fall from the prison. Also, no collar is visible on him. This shows he has the ability to move forward and back in his cell. Unfortunately, there is nothing given in the movie that explains how he is kept in his cell.
The Ice Box really is just a simple prison. It is made of steel, concrete, and plastic. It gets easily damaged and destroyed by Cable's guns and explosions. The only protection it has is that the mutants inside are wearing power dampening collars.
We are not given any parameters for Juggernaut's strength in this movie, other than what is shown. Obviously, the comic book "once in motion, nothing can stop him" doesnt apply to this movie, as he could have walked out of the prison at any time he chose with the strength he displayed.
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