Moving money from productive assets to nonproductive assets works every time its tried.
How about if we give each and every one of them plane fare, a one way ticket, and a house in Liberia, west Africa?
Get them and their crime off of our streets and place it amongst what they like? We have already suffered years upon years of social anchors and their associated costs.
Reparations start with their trip to Africa. Let them participate in what they love!