I nominate you for a deputy position to the elected sherrif in the great state of Arizona. You two would be great together.
In my fantasy world, there is a prison city in Nevada, near Lake Meade that utilizes the landscape and natural resources. This prison city only has one way in and one way out and can contain a dense population of 1 million folks. We would have to initially spend about $1 billion to set up the walls, security perimeter and utilities. Then as we populated the city of Haities, the residents could build their own city under the watchfull eye of ex-marines. Did I mention this would be a federal prison and states could pay the federal government about $25/per day to send prisoners there when overcrowding becomes a problem. Then you never run out of space, can put illegals in there, etc. Hell, let them elect a mayor. And let them police themselves. If they can't get shelter's built and maintained, then they get rained on and hot. They can become useful contributing citizens of their very own society.
What do you think? I forecast about $1billion in initial spending and about $50 million a year to maintain after that. The savings on society cannot be measured but it must pay for itself in about 15 to 20 years. Right?
Are you talking about Sheriff Joe Arpaio?
I'm not sure if your "nomination" is a good thing or a bad thing...;-)
personally,I kind of like the moon colony idea...
You know, Australia started out as a penal colony...
It wouldn't need to be that big. No one jumps a fence to be sent to jail. They would stay home.