The cost of keeping people in prison has exploded over the last few years.
  In fact our incarcerated population poses serious economic problems on federal, state, and local governments.
  The increasing prison population of drug offenders, tax cheats, violent criminals, gang members, murderers, and sexual predators places a heavy financial strain on government resources at all levels.
  Many inmates face lengthy sentences ranging from a decade to multiple decades, to life without possibility of parole.
  Many prisoners facing death sentences often remain in prison for many years, even decades, while their lawyers exhaust every possible avenue to an overturned death sentence.
  Many long term inmates are illegal aliens convicted of drug smuggling or violent actions in connection with drug crimes.
Many of these convicts will never offer any benefit to society if they return to the main stream.
  Recidivism rates are very high, and often habitual criminals fluctuate between prison and renewed commission of crimes if released.
  Placing such a tremendous financial burden on society can itself seem equivalent to committing a crime.
  Public officials should have the authority to implement harsh measures to reduce the law abiding public's unfair financial burden.
  Instead of spending huge sums on incarceration it would make more sense to just get rid of serious offenders.
  No, I'm not talking about mass executions of all major criminals, I'm just saying "Let's get rid of them.
"  Kick them out of the country.
  Drop them onto countries posing a pain in the neck for the United States.
  I'm suggesting deportation to "undesirable" countries.
Illegal alien criminals pose no problem.
  We simply keep all money they may have had when imprisoned, as well as all proof of nationality and identity documents.
  We then place them on a non-U.
S.
airliner, one-way tourist class, and ship them to another country, not their own or an ally.
  If the airlines caused difficulties about the lack of identity documents, we simply provide false documents.
The basic strategy is to let our problems become someone else's problems.
Citizen inmates involve a little more creativity since I believe, but not too certainly, that the Constitution prohibits deportation of American citizens.
  But it is completely legal to send members of the U.
S.
military anywhere in the world.
  So we merely get Congress to pass an individual induction law, draft serious, long term inmates into one of the armed services, and after stripping him or her of all money and identification, send him or her off to a problem country just like the illegal aliens.
  When the flight reaches its destination, or enough time has elapsed for it to have done so, simply discharge the prisoner from military service.
  All nice and legal.
Compared to the cost of incarceration, air transportation to even the most remote undesirable country would be totally insignificant.
  What the receiving country does to the former inmate is of no consequence to the United States.
  This approach would greatly reduce the cost of disciplining serious criminals, and rather than continuing the present need to expand prison facilities would greatly reduce the prison population and allow huge savings for tax payers.