The point was to extract value from their labours, elsewhere.
Also, Australia v1.0 was Carribean/USA v2.0 if the UK/US war hadn't ended transportation to sugar and tobacco plantations they'd have continued supplying Jane Austen with plots (Mansfield park)
Subsequently it was political: pre union protosocialist chartists, Irish independence players.
Emma Goldman, and around 100 other US left wingers were exiled to the USSR by a young J. Edgar Hoover in the post WW1 context. I don't think it was colonising behaviour however.
I wonder if it could be codified into law. "If you've been responsible for x% of convictions, we will imprison you for increasingly longer periods", or "Top 1% of people when sorted by number of convictions will get a long-ass sentence the next time they get convicted."...
And in some countries, if you're a proven perpetual threat, the judge can issue a preventive detention sentence.
It has the advantage over the death penalty in that's reversible if a miscarriage of justice occurs.
Habitual offender sentence enhancement or three strikes laws.