[Windsong]

"...but where a person paid for his crimes rather than having society pay to keep him incarcerated.

Oh goody. Instead of regular state pens, we can go back to Europe's "Debtors Prisons". Mix the defaulted student loan guys with the bank robbers. Yep..that'd work.

[Misplaced Texan]

We need the one cell prison. When a person is convicted, he/she is put into the one cell. When the next person is convicted, the person occupying the cell is executed to make room for the new convict.

Puts a whole new meaning to breaking laws, or allowing laws made to be broken.