Due to the terrifying overflow of prisons, why don't we deport the criminals to Antarctica?

Question

They're ruining and threatening our society, and since violence is increasing, we need to put our foot down. Unstable and violent people will breed kids in unstable environments and more often than not they will turn out the same way and the cycle will continue. If we shamelessly continue to embrace the moral anarchy revolution of the 60's, then why don't we at least deport the dirty laundry it has caused?

Hey, it worked for the Brits importing their prisoners to Australia. How are we above them? Imagine how much safer and stabler we would make our society.

Oh shoot that's right there's PEOPLE there now. But the penguins and leopard seals are pretty tough...they can handle 'em.

And think of the innocent inner-city children that have to deal with these a*sholes every single day of their lives. Maybe they could finally break out of the ghetto if they had decent parents and weren't surrounded by violent criminals.

Infomania, 1969 called...they want you back.

Answer 1

Sorry to say so, but the suggestion is silly.

Unless you want to make this into a thinly disguised death penalty, you'd have to arrange for suitable lodging (even if they build them themselves) and then sufficient provisions for them to live on. Trouble is that, in Antarctica, ALL supplies have to be shipped in, since thare are exactly no raw materials to be gathered, and no way to grow or raise food. Overall, keeping them in prison is still cheaper by far.

If you just want to kill them, then do so, but don't pollute one of the last reasonably pristine areas of the planet. Plus,j remember, Antactica is NOT US territory, and it's NOT to be used as a dumping ground for America's undesirables... what would you say if France started deporting its criminals to the Mojave desert, since they are a menace and you do nothing with that territory anyway?

If you insist on deportation, then you must find a reasonably desert area to colonize, and possibly strike a deal with whatever country has sovereignty over it. Remember, though, deportation is viable only if the place is inhabitable enough that supplies (building materials, food, whatnot) don't have to be (expensively) shipped there. Australia was a quasi virgin territory at the time, and it had enough fertile areas for it to work and no pesky local government to prevent the brits from doing it... Now I fear only Siberia is viable... more or less, if you can convice the Russkies to take your trash

Plus, the Australia solution had one ace in the sleeve we don't have anymore : at the time, it took nearly a year by sailship to go there, and it was the hell go go back to a civilised country. Given modern civilisation, and the ready availability of rapid transport anywhere on the globe, what will you do with people who don't stay where they are supposed to be and just turn up again on US soil?.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

So Australia was used as a British penal colony in the early 1800s. I think it is a bit outdated to use that reasoning, seeing as it is 2007. You are saying we (America) are no better than the British Monarchy that the Revolutionaries fought against, and I disagree.

And which prisoners will you deport? The life sentence folk? The person in for several years for selling drugs? The person in there for a year for having illegal drugs?

And who will fund transporting the prisoners? How many airplanes, guards, gallons of fuel, other security, new facilities in Antarctica, etc., will cost us more money than we have available?

'Just send them there.' Right. So people say it was okay for us to go into Iraq because Saddham was doing bad things to his citizens. What would transporting our citizens (criminal or not) to a place that cannot support human life be? It would be the same thing.

I agree that things need to be done differently with the justice system, but be realistic.

Answer 4

Hey. here's a novel idea how about not persecuting non violent, honest people for cruel and abnormal punitive punishments like 20years for the mere possession of a joint. Rapers and Murderers get out sooner....but NO the DEA, CIA, and all the others have to justify why they need such obscene amounts of our tax money. Not to mention the Private prison system. Set up to maximize profit on human injustice and suffering. Prisons systems should never ever be handed over to the Private sector for profit. America is decaying like their is a cancer inside, still the more it grows the more everybody pretends it is not their. Is the whole country afraid to say right is right , wrong is wrong. Stop appeasing the political puppets put in power to do the corporate bidding and pissing or imprisoning the rest...Mary

Answer 5

Well one reason is our Constitution BUT personally I say deploy them somewhere they cannot leave and if they want to kill each other then so be it. But since our nation is founded upon the Constitution and rights we cannot do this; it was done centuries ago as an experiment but found to be irrational and showed no positive results. Just as public executions they too were used for centuries. Cesare Beccaria, believed that the punishment should fit the crime and should be equally harsh so that they would not think of either committing another crime or commit one period. Unfortunately, our Justice system has tried to make them pay for the crime they commit but still is seen as a joke. For example, child molesters are let free even after they have repeated their crime over and over but a person who sells drugs is sentenced to 25 to life for selling drugs. The equality among the crime is rather a joke. So its okay to molest and rape small children but not okay to sell drugs. Personally I think all rapist, molesters, and serial killers should be locked away on an island and left because according to much research they are likely to repeat their offense and statistics have shown they do.

Answer 6

Criminals are created by laws. If there were no laws, it would be impossible to break the laws, and therefore there would be no crime and no criminals. What you call "criminals" are really just victims of the society in which we live. Capitalism is far from being the just system that we are taught about in school. It in fact demolishes any aspects of a healthy, free society. Only by the gradual awareness of the public to the realities of the society we live in can we ever hope to end the problem of crime. An enlightened society will realize that government and capitalism are the real criminals.

Answer 7

It is extremely costly to maintain life of any kind on that cont. Australia is far more habitable by orders of magnitude. You are crazy to think that "moral anarchy" is to blame for societies ills because there is no such thing as morality.----Duhhh Errrrrr

Rush Limbaugh and Michael Medved called-------they wants their scapegoat back.

Answer 8

when someone has been convictedmore than twice give them a needle when we say convicted it is only saying how many timed they were caught. We spend more on criminals than we do helping needy law abiding citizens..never mind the criminals rights.think about the victoms..

Answer 9

so how many people do you think live in antartica? just, give me a number... oh you don't know? well it's zero. and here's why; it's a f@#$ing ice box. its not a livable environment, so you could not survive. so basically, if we were to dumb it down, we would be giving these convicts a death sentence. now here's my question: what sense would it make to pay for the shipment of these PEOPLE just to die a horrid death in the middle of the antartic? here's the answer to my retorical question. NONE! kill them if that's what your getting at. my god, if you want to be cruel, live up to it, otherwise you are just ignorant...

Answer 10

We send some of them to Guantanamo Bay instead.