We should just load up all the convicts on boats, or at least the worst of them, and find an island in the middle of nowhere and dump them on it. It worked for England. Kind of sucked for the aborigines though. Just try and find an island that is uninhabited.
Why spend billions of dollars trying to house, feed, and rehab rapists, murderers, pedophiles, etc? Just tell them they will have to fend for themselves and kick them off the boat. Just give them the tools to grow food and build housing and you are on your own. Maybe they would think twice about committing a crime if they know they won't get 3 hots and a cot and be back out in a few years.
Why spend $39 billion a year to maintain prisons when it would only cost a fraction of that to ship prisoners off to an island somewhere? Imagine what kind of good that could be done with that money instead. By the way I am not talking about people like the person without pants unless they are a serial criminal. You give them the 3 strikes and you are out treatment before sending them off. Violent criminals, rapists, and pedophiles are 1 and done though.