Antarctic Exile – The Way Forward

Antarctic Exile is an idea that allows us to place convicts in facilities in the Antarctic so they are out of prisons. This could possibly cause less crowding and hassling in the prisons located around America and the World. Currently overcrowding is leading to early releases from long sentences. Antarctic Exile could be the way around this, since it dispatches the prisoners to the Antarctic to work there doing jobs such as running penguin farms. There are many drawbacks, but equally as many advantages of this.

Sending convicts with long sentences away to the arctic frees up the prisons. This will allow the prisons to be filled with people that committed not so terrible crimes, so they don’t have life sentences. At the Antarctic – they can do some good. Penguin farming can be a good way to help the numbers of penguins increase. As a result – Penguin blubber and meat may become a good source of food in the future and they can fish themselves. In addition, Fish farms can be kept to increase the oceans numbers and the Supermarket shelves.

Guards would not necessarily be needed. When prisoners are bought to the Antarctic, they could supply the new ones with blankets, and warm clothing. So there is no need for extra supplies. Food however, can be partially grown the convicts themselves. Giving them an incentive to grow the fish and penguins well.

On the downside, the Antarctic expeditions could not go there any longer, unless a form of compound was erected. However no prisoner would be stupid enough (we hope) to try and escape since it is certain death in every direction. The expeditions would have to avoid the compound in case of attack, or not go.

The cost of such a feat like this: The building of the compound, suitable facilities, transport of prisoners safely to Antarctica should not prove that costly (Compared to the cost some prisons pay)