Instead of a new constitutional amendment, what America needs is a New Deal. Not quite like FDR’s New Deal, however.
The US should make a treaty with an African nation, by which Americans convicted of felony crimes with sentences greater than 10 years, be offered citizenship of that nation as free men.
Of course, for a while, the US would subsidize this with direct payment to the leaders of that nation, on condition that these convicts not be granted passports or travel visas by which they could leave that country.
The offer would not be limited to black convicts. In fact, if convicts of other races, or other nationalities, such as illegal aliens, wish to take up the deal, they might be allowed to do so.
In that these convicts would likely at least on paper have a better education than most people in Africa, this would be an excellent opportunity to turn their lives around as well as bring prosperity to that African nation.
Perhaps in a hundred years, that nation could become much like Australia.
Hear, hear! Bring back the concept of “Penal Colony.” I’m thinking more along the lines of a remote island.