My Idea = Add 'banishment' to prison sentences.
 

This is an idea for individual states to use... Judges should have the option to add 'banishment' when sentencing convicted criminals to time in prison. At the end of his time in prison a convicted felon must leave the state and is bard from ever retuning or risk going back to prison for life!

The benefits are as follows:

--- Keeps the criminals away from the victims.
Victims of rapes and muggings will not need to worry (as much) about seeing their assailants again.

--- Gets the guy away from his jerk friends and co-conspirators.
Lets face it - many guys who are in prison are there because they had help and encouragement from stupid people they call friends. If they are forced to move to another state, they will no longer be influenced by those 'friends'.

--- Would help to breakup criminal organizations.
Whether we are talking about street gangs, drug cartels or the mob - it will be much harder for crime bosses to conduct organized crimes with half their boys banished from the state.

What do you think?

There's this thing called the internet; it kind of makes that sort of thing meaningless.

Would you be happy in your state to accept criminals from another?

You are hereby sentenced to thirty years at hard labor, after which you will spend the rest of your natural life writing poetry.


Banishment is not the same thing as "relocating" which is what moving form one state to another state would be. Banishment would be removal from society.

so.....this is like a 49 strikes and you're out kind of thing, then?

You just gave me an idea.

Instead of a state simply banning a convict which leaves him to choose among the remaining states he isn't banned from, why don't we make ALL states banish every convict to New Jersey.

Then, we ban New Jersey from banning.

Problem.. solved.

that might fall under the geneva convention and the whole cruel and unusual punishment part... still better than texas.. hmmm.. banishing them to texas might help with the immigration 'problem'.. I mean who'd want to cross thru a few hundred mile escape from new york scenerio?

Hey, the city is statistically the safest in the nation, fantasy movie notwithstanding.

What if the person commits a federal crime? Where are you going to send them? What country would take them if they are known criminals? Do you want to send them to Mars?

Send them to Antartica! The scientists might not like it, but they could carry tazers and supersoakers for protection.

:finger:

safest just 'cuz snake plitskin in the man!
(and yes, lets please forget about escape from L.A.... never happened)

Don't make me bring out the Ox...

After reading the posts on this forum (and on my own forum where I posted the same idea http://forum.normandcompany.com/ ) I've decided that my idea is not so great after all. As one person put it: "It's like tossing dog poop out of your yard into someone else's yard". Thank you for your posts everyone. :)

Way to kill your own thread, sun. I thought your idea had some potential.