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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12219501/UKs-jails-run-space-hold-prisoners-2025-report-says.html

UK's jails will run out of space to hold prisoners by 2025
with a shortfall of 2,300 cells, leaked Ministry of Justice
report reveals

MoJ called memo 'internal, draft document' that was 'a year
old' and 'not cleared'

. . .

In short it was The Truth - and the Minister wants
to hide it .......

It's not JUST the UK alas, the USA is also in the
midst of a serious crime wave and does not have
enough space to store all the guilty. Alas they
are often put right back on the streets to do
even more crimes.

Now both the UK and USA have physical *space* for
more prisons - but the MONEY involved (and to
some extent the *politics*) are a serious problem.
Prisons are expensive to build and even more
expensive to maintain. Not a good match for times
of high inflation and overall bad economics.

BUT - something HAS to be done. The criminals are
an expanding population and the degree of their
crimes keeps escalating.

In the very bad old days there would be mass
executions - probably by the most horrible
means.

France and especially England used to export the
worst, or most voluminous, criminals to some
forsaken part of the world. They would not be
doing their crimes in the homeland anymore.

Sorry, but something LIKE that appears to be
necessary again. We can't afford to have Musk
rocket them off to Mars, so it's going to have
to be remote gulags on this planet.

The UK has the Falklands - FAR out of the way.
The USA has many many Pacific holdings, hundreds
of smallish islands. Treat the residents with
fair respect, but they DON'T get to come back
for 20 or 30 years and the Press is NOT invited.
Mostly the residents will have to take care of
their own affairs.

People change slowly - so this crime wave is only
going to GROW for many years to come until things
become pretty much Mad Max. Hard choices have to
be made NOW, no more putting it off, time's up.

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