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"Banishment" to where exactly?

Manhattan. Pretty sure I saw a documentary on this once.

If I recall, the way in was to land a glider on the roof of World Trade Center. This would obviously not work today. Overcome that issue and you've got a plan!

And we can always send in Snake Plissken in case of issues ;)

An idea of penal colony is idiotic (sorry to break HN rules), but why not long term prison.

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."...

Why idiotic? Are there examples of bad precedents?

This is codified in law.

Habitual offender sentence enhancement or three strikes laws.

This already happens in sentencing. If you've been convicted of similar offending in the past, the judge is going to sentence you more harshly.

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.

Mars. I think it was sorta that in The Expanse? (Only saw series)

Prison?

Consider "violence island", we find a isolated place and allow the violent to express themselves together.

So, prison. Just with more obvious weapons.

Prison is step one for the violent and most people in prison haven't commited a violent crime. We will make say three honest attempts to reform you but if you can't go around without seriously harming others eventually we have to cut our losses. Is putting the violent among themselves really all that bad?

Australia

Sadly they've changed the rules, and now a conviction isn't a requirement to get in any more.

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